EPIA-NL 8000G DVD playback?

[Mike Fishcake]

Hi,

A colleague has just built a system based on the VIA EPIA ML-8000G Mini ITX motherboard, has installed WXP and all the drivers, but DVD playback is really slow using Power DVD. I know that the 800MHz CPU isn't going to be exactly stellar performance, but I was under the impression that they had Hardware MPEG-2 decoding which made it reasonably smooth. Any ideas?

[afraser2k]

What version of PowerDVD are you using? I've heard that version four is a lot better than the later versions for Epia's for some reason so you might want to try that or try using VLC client instead.

[Mike Fishcake]

I'll get him to check when he gets in. Otherwise i'll use VLC.

We found an "enable hardware accelleration" option, but that gave us no display at all :-S

Cheers

[Funkstar]

According to the VIA website the 8000G includes "Integrated VIA UniChrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator".

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ma...erboard_id=301

so it should be able to play DVDs if the drivers are set up right. I think i've heard of people using the EPIA 6000 series for MythTV frontends.

[steele]

Have you checked your settings to make sure its using the hardware decoder, if I remember right theres an option somewhere

Steele