[vdr] [OT] What about the VIA VX855?

Dear list,

there has been some talk about the new ION chipset from NVIDIA on this list [1]. Intel also published a board which is said to be very promising for SD (standard definition) material [2] (at least with the FRC (frame rate control) patches [3].

So what about the VIA VX855 chipset [4] as the basis for a multimedia platform? VIA publishes the docs and it looks like it will even be supported by coreboot [5][6].

I know it depends on what you need (SD or HD and so on). But I searched for »vx855 vdr«, »vx855 xbmc«, »vx855 mythtv« on the WWW and did not get meaningfull results. Or is the problem, that there are no boards available yet?

What do you think?

Thanks,

Paul

[1] http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2009-May/020457.html [2] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=86810 [3] http://frc.easy-vdr.de/ [4] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Via-VX855-chipset,7261.html [5] http://www.coreboot.org/ [6] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-May/048829.html