<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Snider</b> <<a href="mailto:dsnider@thesniderpad.com">dsnider@thesniderpad.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;">
<br>><br>> The Mac frontend is significantly less responsive, suffers from<br>> some slight but annoying video artifacts when playing HD content,<br>> doesn't handle commercial skipping, and suffers from a horrible
<br>> bug that causes recording to recue to the beginning if you hit the<br>> "jump forward" or "jump backward" multiple times in rapid succession.<br>><br>> It also tends to lock up the machine when left running for more
<br>> than a day or so, and has exhinited problems returning from<br>> suspend/sleep.<br>><br>> In short, it's great to be able to use my macbook as a frontend,<br>> but it would suck as a dedicated frontend.
<br>><br>><br>> Yikes - that does suck?! Are you using precompiled binaries, or<br>> building yourself?<br>><br>> I read through your list, and I am having none of those problems with<br>> my mac Mythfrontend. I am currently running the
0.20.2 universal<br>> binary from <a href="http://thesniderpad.com">thesniderpad.com</a> <<a href="http://thesniderpad.com">http://thesniderpad.com</a>>; however, I<br>> have also used other intel binaries available on the web without problems.
<br>><br>> No commskip would have been a deal killer for me - it has worked<br>> perfectly on my FE from day one. I'm assuming you've checked your<br>> setup menus?<br>> I see occasional artifacts on HD shows; however, they are a product of
<br>> my loathed cable provider, not the mac. They show up in the same<br>> place when I watch the recording on my linux FE. I've also left it<br>> running for several days without a hitch.<br>I'm glad the universal binary is working for you. I also get commercial
<br>skip with no issues. BUT, I have seen the issue with the jump<br>forward/backward multiple times.</blockquote><div><br><br>I'm open to the possibility that I am imagining the commercial skip problem, (I'm running David's
20.1 build). The HD artifact I have seen is kind of like a diagonal tearing in the image. During fast motion scenes (watching football this weekend), a diagonal line will appear from the top left corner towards the bottom right and the image will appear to be misaligned by a pixel or two between the two haves of the image.
<br><br>As for suspend/sleep issues and lockups, I willing to blame those problems on my mac, as it has been known to suffer those problems without myth running. <br><br> <br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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