Hi,

I've played around this weekend with my epia-m 9000 and a budget dvb-s card,
running on gentoo and finally the results look really promising.

I've used Xorg 6.8.0 with the latest unichrome/libviaxvmc patches, current
dri-cvs, vdr-1.3.15 and xine-plugin 0.6.0. This setup can use the
mpeg2-accelerating features of the cle266 chipset and I'm able to run vdr at
about 50% cpu with my c3 933Mhz clocked to 400Mhz.

The tv-output looks really nice and I can't tell the difference to my main vdr
with a full-featured card (ok, there are some probs with the transparency of
the osd, but i'll look into that tomorrow).

Even if this solution needs X11 at the moment I'd try it. The unichrome people
are currently trying to extend the hardware support of the cle266 chipset to
directfb.

Bye,
Matthias