[mythtv-users] Apple announces VDPAU capable mac-mini!

[Josh White]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM, sonofzev at iinet.net.au <
sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
> Hey at the price of the hardware with video card e.t.c.... just load linux
> on to
> it and get the vdpau working on it.. no need for mac os.. (on the proviso
> that
> the apple remote is supported or you could get something else that may work
> via
> usb)..
>
> i know it looks expensive initially, but for a box that small and quiet,
> this is
> quite a nice piece of hardware...
>
>
> On Wed Mar  4 16:18 , scram69  sent:
>
> >On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Close aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini
> \?mco=MTE3MDI
> >>
> >> 2.0GHz Core2Duo
> >> up to 4GB RAM
> >> nVidia 9400M
> >>
> >Anyone know if there will be support under OS X for VDPAU-like
> >drivers?  I.e. will mythfrontend/mplayer/vlc running on Leopard be
> >able to take advantage of offloading video processing onto the GPU?
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One reason to keep Mac OS X on a mini frontend would be to keep the ability
to stream Netflix movies, and access other DRM'd stuff that would otherwise
not be available to a Linux system.  It would seem strange for Apple to put
this card in the Mini and then ignore the VDPAU/Pure Video enabled hardware.
  As I said earlier in this thread, if Apple ever decides to add a blu-ray
player to the mini, you'd have something close to the perfect device.  Are
there any slot-loading blu-ray players out there that could be swapped in?
Then again, I suppose if you were able to do the hardware swap, until Apple
releases blu-ray drives, it's unlikely they will release the software to
make it work.
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