<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">WiFi Fun</b> <<a href="mailto:wififun@gmail.com">wififun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For those with current MacMini's, have you had any luck using it for<br>playback of non HD myth tv content. I have a knoppmyth back/frontent<br>with .19 and the frontend on my mini stutters and chokes. The<br>recordings are PVRx50 at about 5mbps, over gige network. Though the
<br>mini is only 100, throughput is not the problem. The frontend just<br>can't playback the video. On my wifes iMac g5, and my big PowerMac,<br>the frontend works fine. What do you current folks do with your mini's<br>as frontends? Though I think once it is compiled for intel macs, I may
<br>sell my current one, and pick up a new one.</blockquote><div><br>I was just playing around with the 0.19 MacOS X frontend last night on both my 1.25GHz PowerBook G4 and my 1.42GHz Mini. ESPN played just fine on both machines. My backend is a Linux box with a PVR-500 dual tuner card (as well as a couple HD cards, which neither Mac could handle).
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 2/28/06, Todd Ignasiak <<a href="mailto:ignasiak@gmail.com">ignasiak@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 2/28/06, Trey Boudreau <<a href="mailto:trey@treysoft.com">trey@treysoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:33:55PM -0500, Tom Dombrosky wrote:<br>> > > On 2/28/06, Trey Boudreau <
<a href="mailto:trey@treysoft.com">trey@treysoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:24:04PM -0500, Mike Frisch wrote:<br>> > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:51:21AM -0800, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
<br>> > > > > > The dual core intel processor has plenty of horsepower for HD<br>> > > > > > MPEG2 decoding.<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > > Can the Intel 950 video chipset handle it though?
<br>> > > > ><br>> > > > According to the Intel specs, yes:<br>> > > ><br>> > > ><br>> <a href="http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/">http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
</a><br>> > > ><br>> > > > Intel has had notoriously bad drivers for their graphics chipsets in<br>> the<br>> > > > Windows world. Let's hope Apple wrote their own :-)<br>> > >
<br>> > > Don't the intel drivers not work with video over 1440 in linux? I think<br>> I<br>> > > remember seeing that somewhere on this mailing list.<br>> > ><br>> > It seems like older versions of the chipset might not handle 1080i
<br>> > video. The datasheet seems to indicate that the 950 does. I couldn't<br>> > find the programming manual for it on the Intel site, so I can't say for<br>> > sure.<br>><br>><br>> Yeah, they clearly claim 1080i/p support on that web page. It'll be
<br>> interesting to see how it really performs.<br>><br>> Two other video questions I have:<br>><br>> - What is "High Definition Content Decode - up to two stream support" from<br>> their datasheet?? I assume their not talking about MPEG decoders, like in
<br>> the Unichrome.. Given the otherwise weak MPEG2 offload capabilities (MC<br>> support, but no iDCT). Is this anything real, or just marketing-speak for<br>> something less exciting?<br>><br>> - Is the 950 'Core Video' capable, to support all the MacOS GUI effects, and
<br>> interesting video processing capabiltiies? I suspect 'yes', given the<br>> specs about Dx9 support and Pixel Shaders.<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list
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