ASRock 330 nVidia ION Nettop Ubuntu 9.04 XBMC Aeon Skin MythTV boxee MCEUSB VDPAU Testing HDMI

This is a stock ASRock 330 nVidia ION (~$350 USD) (2GB/320GB/DVD) that has been loaded with Ubuntu 9.04 x86 (32-bit), nVidia 180.60 Drivers, XBMC 9.04.1 with Aeon Skin, Jean-Yves Avenard's MythTV 0.21-fixes with VDPAU backport support, and the latest boxee alpha for Ubuntu. Included is a peak 63Mbps H264 1080P test of Earth (2007) with no dropped frames. Display device is an Optoma HD72 (720P DLP Projector) on a 92" Da-Lite HCCV PermWall with audio pumped via HDMI to an Onkyo TX-SR876 using ALSA 1.0.21. 480i and 1080i content deinterlaced via VDPAU (Bob 2x) Hardware.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ASROCK
• ION
• NVIDIA
• UBUNTU
• XBMC
• VDPAU
• HDMI
• BOXEE
• MYTHTV
• AEON

[SkillipEvolver]

ps- how are you getting the tv channels? you have a usb-tv card installed I presume?

[Eemrek]

It's actually the frontend only on the ASRock 330, however you could probably easily use USB-TV tuners on it and run the frontend on the ASRock 330. The backend runs on a miniITX JetWay VIA C7 1.2 GHz machine with two pcHDTV 5500 tuner cards.

[SkillipEvolver]

63Mbps! heavy! glad to see it held up. Nice performance all-round. menus especially. Any info about thumbs? what res are the posters/bkgrnd art? thumbquality 512 or?... very nice.

[Eemrek]

I'm not sure about the thumbs but the posters and background art are 1920x1080 pulls from FanART scrappers built into MythTV & the skins.

[WeThrowPie]

oogjenatwork: your friend is an idiot and has something set up wrong. the proof he's an idiot? a $200 hdmi cable.

[pentanoninux]

I would suggest to update your xbmc as soon as possible. Today came an update which makes rendering mode: vdpau enabled. (YES, it's a good day to be on the Linux side)

[ShadowEater120880]

How do you get your movies like yours with the boxes and backgrounds please?

[rysliv]

i cant get aeon to work even with xbmc 9.04.1

is there like a certain revision i am suppose to have?, where can i get it

[modmadmike2]

Umm... its open source!!!! In other words just compile it on a 64 bit computer if you want 64bit support. I compiled it on my 64bit install and it runs great! With VDPAU too

[JulianSSS]

use mplayer with vdpau ...

[alf786]

How can i get Ubuntu work flawlessly on a 1080p 24p like i-robot with stuttering or juderring? as on asrock, just not happening tearing away disabled all avsync no to refresh etc, do i need to put something in the xconfig? Please help.

[oObsi]

oogjenatwork: to not derive that much from the topic/video. you can play HD content on an ION card just fine (0% cpu usage for video decoding) if you use its native capabilities (VDPAU) and your the video you wanna see is encoded in a supported format.

[oogjenatwork]

Marijn01 is right. Full HD content does NOT run perfectly. It shows best on a 'pan'-shot. None of my HD-movies runs smoothly. Guess what: friend of mine bought a 3,5K $ Samsung LED TV installation with Blu-Ray and all... Only the cable between player and tv is 200$ (crazy). On this installation you often see some stuttering... :-S So I'm happy with my ION 330 setup! Things sure can improve though

[walter0bz]

can you play 1080p wmvhd under linux on an ion nettop?

[Jaspierrrr]

I installed the newest version, but I can't get it the same as Eemrek has.. That just looks awesome :)