[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Frontend - HDTV Capable?

[Matt Mousseau]

I wonder if that is a data delivery (from the HD) issue...ie, could a
data stream coming over gigbit ethernet be played? Now I'm worried again
:-/

Matthew Mousseau
AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
matt at amsvans.com


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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Simpson
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mac Mini Frontend - HDTV Capable?


> It should be ok. My powerbook can play 720p with no problems. 1080i 
> does give it trouble but then its downscaling to 1440x900 to show it 
> on the screen so its to be expected. If you connect it to an external 
> monitor its fine.
> 
> For reference my power book has 1.5Ghz G4 1GB ram 128mb ATI card ( I 
> forget the model number) so it equates almost exactly to a well 
> specced mac mini. _______________________________________________

Excellent! Maybe that will be my next frontend, I've always wanted to
get a mac...

So I take it this article is no longer correct:

http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2349&p=4

It was mentioned in a previous thread on here, saying "The end result is
that anything above a 13Mbps stream ends up dropping frames on the
1.25GHz Mac mini, meaning that basically all HD streams are unplayable
on the mini even though they record fine."

Do you have some kind of hardware acceleration that the reviewers
didn't, maybe? _______________________________________________
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