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

[Simon Williams]

On 4/28/05, Jonathan Watmough <jonathan.watmough at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/27/05, Art Morales <bioart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 4/27/05, Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Without hardware acceleration, a 
> > > > 3ghz PC can do it, and the 1.4ghz mac can't. End of discussion.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think the problem is that by definition, the two processor
> > > architectures are not comparable (on Speed alone).   To say that a 1.4
> > > ghz G5 is the same speed that a 1.4 ghz P4 is at best naive.  I'm not
> > > a mac evangelist, but Macs have been plenty fast for a very long time
> > > with slower actual clockspeeds than wintel.  We'll just have to wait 
> > > and see till someone takes the time to optimize them.
> > >
> > > Art
> 
>  What's going to be involved in doing this optimising ? I'd definitely like
> to go 'Mac'
>  at some point if possible, but there's wouldn't be too much point until
> there is
>  a version of mplayer, mythtv, xine etc that runs as good as on PC.
>  
>  Does anyone know what kind of shape mplayer on the Mac is in ?
>  



Mplayer on the mac is not great but it does exist. To be honest I
haven't had a need to use it for over 6 months as VLC does everything
I've asked it to.
VLC very good.
Xine its a work in progress ( http://xineplayer.berlios.de/ )