Which driver package did you use for your Media Center? Did you use the UniChrome from sf.net, or OpenChrome, or did you go with the package from viaarena.com?
I know others have shared my pain in trying to get a C7 based xorg setup with mpeg2 decoding, decent 3d performance, and stability. You spend an afternoon compiling/installing many different versions of openchrome only to watch it crash after a few seconds of video playback. Then you go to UniChrome and see that it doesn't have modeline support for the latest TV Encoder chips. Finally you go back to the drivers from viaarena.com and get stability but no hardware mpeg2 decoder playback because the patches to mplayer or xine no longer work?
I guess what I'm asking is, what combination of software did you end up using for your Media Center PC?
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Which driver package did you use for your Media Center? Did you use the UniChrome from sf.net, or OpenChrome, or did you go with the package from viaarena.com?
I know others have shared my pain in trying to get a C7 based xorg setup with mpeg2 decoding, decent 3d performance, and stability. You spend an afternoon compiling/installing many different versions of openchrome only to watch it crash after a few seconds of video playback. Then you go to UniChrome and see that it doesn't have modeline support for the latest TV Encoder chips. Finally you go back to the drivers from viaarena.com and get stability but no hardware mpeg2 decoder playback because the patches to mplayer or xine no longer work?
I guess what I'm asking is, what combination of software did you end up using for your Media Center PC?