home cinema with VIA EPIA V-8000 possible?

[nervousfinger]

Hi!
I'm planning to build a small home cinema PC for playing DVD, DivX, XVid and so on...
Is the 800MHz C3 CPU of the VIA EPIA V-8000 fast enough for Software Decoding? How much RAM do I need?
I'm planning to use the onboard hardware only...
Is it easy to get the TV-out running?
Can I use distcc with that C3 Machine and my Athlon XP machine?

regards
Finger

[Sade]

Hi!

hi

I'm planning to build a small home cinema PC for playing DVD, DivX, XVid and so on...
Is the 800MHz C3 CPU of the VIA EPIA V-8000 fast enough for Software Decoding? How much RAM do I need?

yes it's fast enough, there are lot's of internet sites devoted on epia-home-cinema. try this one and linitx.org
I would recomend 512Mb, but i think 256Mb should be enough. remember that the onboard graphic's chips steals some of that memory.

I'm planning to use the onboard hardware only...
Is it easy to get the TV-out running?

yes and no, read this page I found www.epiawiki.org

Note: If you want to use the TV-out on your Epia, you should use XFree86, since Xorg have serious trouble finding the correct TV refresh rate. (Don't count on that any given set of Modelines that works 100% in XFree86 would work in Xorg!) — At least I haven't been able to get it to work on PAL with Xorg 6.7. (~Silverjam)

Can I use distcc with that C3 Machine and my Athlon XP machine?

don't know, i think not.