[mythtv-users] MacOS Hardware Acceleration

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 17 February 2006 09:49, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> Does anyone here have more information, or pointers to more information on
> the MacOS X MPEG2 hardware acceleration code recently submitted to the svn?
>
>
> I am very interested in this, but I have been unable to find any
> information beyond the couple mails on the dev mailing list.
>
> Apparently, it's based on the "Accellent" project for reverse engineering
> the API used by the apple DVD player (
> http://www.defyne.org/dvb/accellent.html ).
>
> I'm not sure how far along the project/code is.

Still not quite there yet, Nigel is still working on merging it all in, 
getting it to build properly, etc. Watch the -dev list and -commits for 
details.

> But, once stable, this 
> would make the Mac Mini into an excellent HDTV MythTV frontend.

I *highly* doubt that. Accellent appears to be more akin to Xv or XvMC 
acceleration provided by an nVidia card, where you still need a fair amount 
of cpu horsepower to watch HDTV. To use such a slow machine, you need a 
full-out hardware mpeg2 decoder, capable of handling HDTV-sized frames, more 
akin to the UniChrome Pro. But I could be wrong.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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