[mythtv-users] Playback quality on OSX?

[Simon Hobson]

TJ Harris wrote:

>After running MythFrontend (0.21-fixes) on Mac OS X for an hour, I was
>reminded why I have stuck with Linux.  The quality on OSX was quite
>poor.  Is it just me, or are other Mac users getting similar behavior?
>
>The problems I got:
>
>- MythFrontend.app hangs with the spinning ball, requiring a force
>quit to kill it.   This happens fairly often when exiting a recording.
>  Today it happened during playback.
>
>- Video corruption - a lot more breakups and corruption than when
>running under Linux.
>
>- Dropped Frames - when running with debug messages on, I can see all
>the 'dropped frame' messages.  The actual video looks very choppy.

Not seen any of those problems.

I'm running it on a MacBook Pro dual 1.8G with 10.5.8. Program 
version is given as "1.0, $ld: osx-bundler.pl 15443 2008-01-14 
22:14:47 nigel $"

I don't run it fullscreen (1400x900) though - I run Myth in a window 1366x768.

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