[mythtv-users] 0.25 on mac-mini

[Craig Treleaven]

At 9:40 AM -0700 4/23/12, Sean Whitney wrote:
>On 04/23/2012 09:28 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>  On 24 April 2012 01:25, Sean Whitney <sean.whitney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  My mac mini was almost flawless in playback under 0.24.  Now any 1080
>>>  recordings play back with stuttering audio/video.  The HD test video
>>>  under setup plays back flawlessly.
>>>
>>>  I'm using the latest build on sourceforge.  I've attached log files of
>>>  the playback error and specific of the file.
>>>
>>>  Any help would be great!
>>
>>  Use the VDA Normal profile instead of VDA High Quality
>>
>>  I have serious doubt that what did play in 0.24 now wouldn't play in
>>  0.25 all things considered. Mac mini with a nvidia 320M use a Core 2
>>  Duo at 2.4GHz max, that doesn't have enough grunt for some of the
>>  videos created by the HD-PVR
>>
>>  You must have changed something, such as the video type being decoded,
>>  the video profile used to decode.
>>
>>  Were you using VDA with 0.24 too?
>I've tried all the VDA (normal, slim) profiles with basically similar
>results.  I was using the blit (xv-blit or quartz-blit) with the mini
>prior to this.  I don't think the version of 0.24 had the VDA profile
>included, or if it did I wasn't using it.
>
>As for 1080 playback there were occasion blips or slow downs but it was
>barely noticeable with 0.24 but now with 0.25 the 1080 content isn't
>watchable.

Top posting fixed.

Are you rolling your own (osx-packager[-qtsdk].pl)?  It would be 
interesting to see if a 32 bit version using Quartz can actually play 
these recordings.  I know the theory is that 64 bit is better, etc. 
But real life doesn't always pay attention to our theories!

Craig