Blog of Ian Parr » eeebox http://www.ianparr.com/blog Just another WordPress site Wed, 09 May 2012 16:37:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Asus EEEBox B202 not so good with MPEG2 http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2009/03/25/asus-eeebox-b202-not-so-good-with-mpeg2/ http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2009/03/25/asus-eeebox-b202-not-so-good-with-mpeg2/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:36:20 +0000 ian http://ianparr.com/blog/?p=166 Well I plumped for the EEEBox B202 and overall I’m quite happy with it.
Seems to render streamed Divx movies quite happily received over an 802.11G wireless link.

One problem I do have with it is the lack of MPEG2 Hardware decoder in the graphics chipset.
I have a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T USB2 DVB-T receiver for receiving broadcasts here in the UK and have had to find a softare MPEG2 CODEC to decode the received broadcasts. It seems the chipset is not up to rendering stream very well (low frame rate) on my Bravia flatscreen.

I might have to wait for the higher specification EEEBox B204, B206 or B208 when they are released in the UK.

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]]> http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2009/03/25/asus-eeebox-b202-not-so-good-with-mpeg2/feed/ 0 Asus EEEBox B208 looks tempting http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2009/03/16/asus-eeebox-b208-looks-tempting/ http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2009/03/16/asus-eeebox-b208-looks-tempting/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:00:26 +0000 ian http://ianparr.com/blog/?p=161 Asus seems to have removed it from their website but Google cache works wonders:

Take a look here

Better hardwere video decoding a newer dual core Intel Atom processor and some sort of built in UPS

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