TBS5520SE & HP Compaq tc4400 Tablet PC???

[pseud]

Hello Folks

I've been lurking here on and off for years...

Anyway, recently I've resuscitated an old tablet pc into a bit of a media server. It seemed such a nice bit of kit and I rather liked the idea of the old Waycom touchscreen as an input device, also it has this old docking station with 1080p DVI out (which is all I'm ever going to want). At the moment it's running squeezebox and nextcloud and backing things up.

I asked TBS what came out of the USB on their TBS5520SE.
Given this tablet has no slots etc. The response was:

Our USB box output is the orignal TS stream MPTS . if you have any
more question please feel free to ask us

I maxed the processor on the tablet and memory (still small by today) and this is what I have in it:

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[root@frontserver ~]# lscpu
Architecture:        x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core:  1
Core(s) per socket:  2
Socket(s):           1
NUMA node(s):        1
Vendor ID:           GenuineIntel
CPU family:          6
Model:               15
Model name:          Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7600  @ 2.33GHz
Stepping:            6
CPU MHz:             1029.351
CPU max MHz:         2333.0000
CPU min MHz:         1000.0000
BogoMIPS:            4655.12
Virtualization:      VT-x
L1d cache:           32K
L1i cache:           32K
L2 cache:            4096K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0,1
Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow dtherm
[root@frontserver ~]# lsmem
RANGE                                  SIZE  STATE REMOVABLE BLOCK
0x0000000000000000-0x00000000d7ffffff  3.4G online        no  0-26

Memory block size:       128M
Total online memory:     3.4G
Total offline memory:      0B
[root@frontserver ~]#

And. so the question is - will the processor on the tablet cope with decoding and playing out the video to the DVI that comes in through the USB from the TBS5520SE?

Many thanks,
Morgan

[Steve Goodey]

Not to answer your question but:-

[url]URL I'm not allowed to post.../url]

A few more posts by yourself and then you should be able to include URLs. It's to stop those pesky spammers that try to post most days.

[wesnewell]

AFAIK, MPTS is basically mpeg-2. There is no decoding required of the input stream. Its stored in its original mpeg-2 format to disk. Video output will depend on the graphics chipset you have in the tablet and whatever the video source format is, Most will do 1080 HD these days without much problem. there's a minimum requirement spec in the wiki. But my first frontend box was an old Duron 800 with a real cheap video card, One of my current frontends is an old Athlon II dual core using bulit in GF8200 chipset and it works fine at 1080 HD and it's over 10 years old.

[pseud]

Thanks Steve & Wes, I'll see if I can crank up my post rate
Wes, your quote of the old Athlon II dual core seems a few clicks over my old Core2 T7600. I had a quick compare with a AMD Athlon II X4 655 on cpu benchmark and it rates the Athlon at 2078 clicks cf 758...
But what you say about MPTS suggests there's not a lot of lifting to be done - so, I'll stride on
Thx

[pseud]

PS it seems that MPTS stands for Multi-Programme Transport Stream and is discussed in a Wiki article MPEG Transport Streams... It seems like the broadcast multiplex

[pseud]

Wes, looking at the wiki I've found a page titled 'Intel Integrated Graphics' which gives me some concern - I wonder if you could comment.
The chipset on the machine is:
Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset
With:
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950

I think the 945 comes before the 965 which in the table on the 'Intel Integrated Graphics' page is listed as 'Limited Skips' under '1080i playback.'

So, I wonder whether this will play 1080p properly?

Thanks.

[wesnewell]

I've never used Intel graphics. last intel chip I used was an old old 8088 or86. Switched to Cyrix and AMD and never looked back.

[pseud]

Well, the HP Compaq tc4400 Tablet PC wasn't bought as a media server...
Perhaps I'll have to drag out the similarly vintage HP ML150 G3 tower and cobble them together somehow