[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?
Yeechang Lee
ylee at pobox.com
Wed Feb 13 02:58:33 UTC 2008
jedi at mishnet.org <jedi at mishnet.org> says:
> > The Mac mini's 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo and GMA950 is great for
> > high-definition MPEG-2 content, but unless developers can truly do
> > wonders with the newly-released technical data, we're not going to
> > see 1920x1080 h.264 content be playable in Linux.[1]
>
> That content already seems to happily play on a Linux mini backends.
>
> If you can point us to some "better examples", those of us that are
> running mini frontends can put them through their paces.
You and Nicolas Will certainly give me hope for an inexpensive,
available-now solution to the h.264/Yadif (as opposed to MPEG-2/Bob,
which I already figured Linux running on Mac Mini with the Intel
drivers wouldn't have trouble with) dilemma I raised in my original
message!
The 1080p h.264 clips I discussed are from Apple. Try downloading the
follwing:
http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/1080p/___________
and the following filenames:
barberofseville_m1080p20070907.mov
bbc-blue_m1080p.mov
bbc-cfb_m1080p.mov
bbc-japan_1080p.mov
bbc_cctv_1080p20070914.mov
bbc_m1080p.mov
btn_1080p.mov
cornell_m1080p.mov
ducati_m1080p20070907.mov
gilmour_1080p.mov
heima_1080p.mov
kauai_1080p.mov
maria_taylor_m1080p.mov
nin_m1080p.mov
warren_miller_m1080p.mov
wink_m1080p.mov
worldcafelive_m1080p.mov
Ideally you'd be able to play them on your Mac mini with no problems
using SVN/0.21's Yadif (2X) or Greedy (2X) deinterlacers and OpenGL
renderer into 1080p-capable display via Linux, but failing that I'd
take Bob and Xv/Quartz on OS X.
(If this works out, not only would I be ecstatic at having been shown
to be making mistaken assumptions, I'd probably buy *two* minis,
including one to replace my current sole frontend!)
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