[mythtv-users] 1080i HD and macmini: Choppy playback

[Justin Kim]

At 2:13 PM -0800 3/10/08, Monkey Pet wrote:
>I bought myself a brand new macmini (1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB of
>memory) to use as a myth frontend.  I noticed that 1080i HD content
>recorded from hdhomerun box doesn't play well on my 1080p LCD TV.  The
>HD is watchable, but there are choppiness, ghosting and frame drops.
>
>The osx mythfrontend binary was obtained from the sniderpad.com
>(http://www.thesniderpad.com//component/option,com_remository/Itemid,36/).
>
>I noticed that when I shutoff autoscaling in the mythfrontend, the HD
>playback is flawless and perfect.  However, this makes the SD image to
>be very small.  None of the other OSX frontend settings did anything
>to improve the playback.  I am wondering if anyone has a fix for this
>or another set of binaries that I can try.
>
>On another note, the HD playback using VLC over NFS is also perfect
>and flawless, so I think this has to do with the way the mythfrontend
>is playing the HD content.

This is a known issue with 1080 content and the Mac front end:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294883


Justin