[mythtv-users] Core 2 Duo iMac, terrible performance as front end

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 16:08:55 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:01 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:42:42AM -0500, Matt Emmott wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >      The AppleTV (nv based) and the Mini (Intel based) both seem to do
> > > well enough. I quickly dumped ATI after using it on my first dedicated
> > > frontend and will never use their stuff again.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> > >
> > So it's an ATI driver issue? Anything I can do? It seems a real shame
> that a
> > pretty beefy machine like this can't push HD or even SD, when my less
> > powerful Macbook laptop could render them just fine. I suppose I could
>
>     Well, depending on what video chipset is in the laptop it could be
> much better suited to playing video. The chipset in Apple's current "cheap"
> laptop supports full hardware acceleration of h264 playback (HD even) under
> Linux.
>
>    For MacOS, I wouldn't expect ATI to be quite so bad but you can never
> tell.
>
>
> > install Ubuntu on it, I wonder if I can wedge it into my NTFS Windows 7
> > partition via Wubi...
>
> I've had decent luck with a G4 eMac with an ATI Radeon 7500 video card.  It
woudln't work with Ubuntu, but Debian seemed to work with the card.  I was
also able to run on OSX 10.4 with an copy of mythtv frontend .20 from
thesniderpad,  but when .21 came out, I could no longer play SD recordings
on the machine.
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