[mythtv-users] 0.25 on mac-mini

[Sean Whitney]

On 04/23/2012 10:31 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> 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

I've never rolled my own.  For the 0.24 I would use the sourceforge
build.  For 0.25 I've used sourceforge's and Jean's.


Sean

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