2013-05-01, 10:01
Please tell me to go and find another place if this is inappropriate! A link or three would be appreciated.
I am a video engineer and occasional magazine writer. A year+ ago I attempted to build an appliance type PVR based upon an ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe Mobo. I wanted to try Linux (I was a 'noob') and tried all the obvious solutions but basically could not get HD to play smoothly. In this case HD is specifically the H.264 1080 50i as broadcast in UK. I understood at that time that the AMD drivers didn't work well and there was a project within the OpenELEC group to make some better ones. I haven't read all 215 pages of this strand but I have gathered that a standard build based upon Ubuntu 12.10 and its default Catalyst is a good place to start. I have therefore loaded a build of XuBuntu 12.10 on the ASUS and as a first trial, I have attached (via eSATA) a RAID loaded with recorded HD TV (.ts files), loaded a copy of VLC and tried to play a file. It is useless - I get about 1 frame a second! Now I am sure that I should be doing some tweaking so can somebody start me off in the right direction? Should I update the Catalyst driver?
The real question is will it be worth it - will I get smooth play of broadcast (in UK) HD TV?
I am a video engineer and occasional magazine writer. A year+ ago I attempted to build an appliance type PVR based upon an ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe Mobo. I wanted to try Linux (I was a 'noob') and tried all the obvious solutions but basically could not get HD to play smoothly. In this case HD is specifically the H.264 1080 50i as broadcast in UK. I understood at that time that the AMD drivers didn't work well and there was a project within the OpenELEC group to make some better ones. I haven't read all 215 pages of this strand but I have gathered that a standard build based upon Ubuntu 12.10 and its default Catalyst is a good place to start. I have therefore loaded a build of XuBuntu 12.10 on the ASUS and as a first trial, I have attached (via eSATA) a RAID loaded with recorded HD TV (.ts files), loaded a copy of VLC and tried to play a file. It is useless - I get about 1 frame a second! Now I am sure that I should be doing some tweaking so can somebody start me off in the right direction? Should I update the Catalyst driver?
The real question is will it be worth it - will I get smooth play of broadcast (in UK) HD TV?