Goga777 wrote:
Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so far the video decoding has not exceeded 1% cpu load for ANY 1080p clip I've tried. This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For those interested it uses 34W from 220V with the hdd still attached. I don't know if it's using any power though, since I've disabled SATA in the bios because I boot it off the network. Anyone who knows how to open this wonderful little thing? /Magnus H
2009/5/16 Magnus Hörlin magnus@alefors.se:
With an N230 or 330 processor?
That's a 230 with 2GB RAM. Don't see any need for a 330 for this application.
How much ram does the GPU get allocated with 2GB ram overall? 256MB?
Magnus Hörlin a écrit :
Thanks for the feedback.
Knowing that my EPIA ML6000 draws 25W from the wall (no HDD at all) while hardware-decoding MPEG2, using the same kind of power brick, I'd say decoding 1080p with 34W is great ! I guess the HDD will still spin, even with SATA disabled at the BIOS. You could rip 2 more watts off by unpluging it.
Openning it : http://hothardware.com/Articles/Acer-Aspire-Revo-SFF-NVIDIA-Ion-PC/?page=3
Does digital sound come out of the box on HDMI only ? No SPDIF of some kind ?
Nicolas Huillard wrote:
Thanks a lot for the link. Will open it as soon as my daughter has finished watching "High school musical". aplay -l shows no sign of a digital output other than hdmi which is a bit odd. I thought there would be a header on the mb at least but I guess not. For the moment I'm happy with hdmi. /Magnus H
Yes the Revo uses the HDMI port to route audio out to TV or a Surround amp.
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nicolas Huillard nicolas@huillard.netwrote:
Goga777 wrote:
Not sure about that. I have a vdr server in the attic with six pci-slots full of dvb-t and s2 cards and run xineliboutput over the network. Works like a charm with vdpau deinterlacing my 1080i channels. The only one that doesn't work perfectly yet is SVT HD with 720p50. /Magnus H
thanks again
which resolution and diagonal size has your TV set ?
Goga
Thanks for the feedback on this hardware! There are many interested parties (myself included) so it's great to hear some real world experiences. Have you tried throwing any VC-1 at it yet?
Regards, Derek
Magnus Hörlin wrote:
This is the best VDR frontend/XBMC machine I've ever tried. I don't know
why, but it works better than my Intel E7200/Nvidia 9400 uATX board. For /Magnus H
Hello
I think to buy GA-E7AUM-DS2H NVIDIA GeForce 9400 motherboard. Can you share your experiences whit 9400 based mobo and VDPAU? (And rest your notes ofc ;-)) What you mean "GA-E7AUM-DS2H NVIDIA GeForce 9400...")?
Tommi
Tommi Lundell wrote:
Well, I've had that board since it came out and if I was you I'd wait for one of hopefully several Nvidia Ion boards coming out soon. For some reason I never managed to make the GA-card work as well as my Ion board which is just fantastic. This how the Revo looks mounted on the back of my LCD, together with a USB DVD player. HDD, WLAN card and top cover are removed since I don't need any of them. As you can see, the performance figures while playing "killa" in XBMC are quite impressive, don't you think? http://www.minhembio.com/magho Yes I know, I will tidy up the cable routing! But with only two (AC power and ethernet) cables running to the TV that's not a very difficult job. /Magnus H