[vinistois]

Hey Guys,

I have a spare Intel D510MO. Its a nice passive pinetrail board with a mini-pcie slot. I am considering ordering the Broadcomm Crystal card and using it as a passive mini-HTPC with a small SSD to access network storage.

- Can I expect smooth 720P playback? I don't have a 1080P screen so I don't really care, but should it also be able to play 1080?

- I am only concerned with XBMC playback, don't really care about other programs

- Is there any benefit to running on Linux over windows 7?

- Will the broadcomm card be officially supported by XBMC? Right now it seems like a bit of a work around, and definitely a work in progress. I want to make sure that 100% support IS intended in the future so that I am not stuck with an otherwise essentially useless platform.

- Would it be smarter to wait for the ION2 pinetrail platforms?

Thanks

[CrashX]

Latest XBMC change supports HD acceleration via VAAPI which is supported on intel pineview.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=61043

[davilla]

Humm, Looks like I have a test platform (Intel D510MO) to compare VAAPI against CrystalHD. CrystalHD works fine for me under the Intel D510MO.

[enderzero]

Any word on how VA-API compares to an nVidia VDPAU alternative?

[vinistois]

so what happens when you have pinetrail AND the crystal HD card?

Which one gets used?

is pinetrail on its own capable of 1080p?

[magnetik]

My understanding they stunted the HDMI output to 720p - which is weird. But it should decode 1080p. Just would need to add a PCI-E video card... or use D-sub for video...

[davilla]

My understanding they stunted the HDMI output to 720p - which is weird. But it should decode 1080p. Just would need to add a PCI-E video card... or use D-sub for video...

Intel D510MO does not have a pci-e slot. It has one pci slot and one mini pci-e slot.

[vinistois]

Intel D510MO does not have a pci-e slot. It has one pci slot and one mini pci-e slot.

And also no HDMI port...

[davilla]

And also no HDMI port...

Think you quoted the wrong person

[vinistois]

lol

[magnetik]

Yeah correct no HDMI on that board, but I was thinking of the Zotac NM10-DTX, which has the D510, and HDMI (stunted to 720p) - which from memory is due to a chipset restriction.

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-nm10-dtx-w...board.html

[vinistois]

thats a neat board.

I think I'll just wait for ion2. The netbooks are already coming out, it won't be long before we have a pinetrail/ion2 platform.

I realized HDMI output is pretty important to me and the 510 lacking a DVI port makes that impossible.

I would also really like something with 12V on-board.

[CrashX]

Humm, Looks like I have a test platform (Intel D510MO) to compare VAAPI against CrystalHD. CrystalHD works fine for me under the Intel D510MO.

Did you get a chance to compare ?

[davilla]

Did you get a chance to compare ?

not yet.

[foolosophy]

Humm, Looks like I have a test platform (Intel D510MO) to compare VAAPI against CrystalHD. CrystalHD works fine for me under the Intel D510MO.

You can play 1080p content with no problems? I have that motherboard and no PCI-e mini card, but playing 1080p is impossible, it lags a lot. (In Linux).

I'm compilig the GIT trunk right now, but without CrystalHD. Big mistake? EDIT: No, given that I don't have the Broadcomm card, CrystalHD would be useless.

But.. you can play 1080p just fine with the pineview D510?