On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Craig Treleaven <<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">At 11:32 PM -0700 6/28/08, Daniel Segel wrote:<br>
>I have an iMac G5 1.8GHz system that I'm trying to run Mythfrontend on. My backend records and plays back HD content just fine with no problems at all, but when I try to play any recorded HD content on the Mac it's very jittery and many frames are dropped. Before I spend a lot more time on this system I'd like to know if it's reasonable to expect this Mac to play back HD programming in the first place.<br>
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>And if not, would a newer Intel Mac Mini do the job? What's the minimum processing/graphics power I need on a Mac to work as an effective frontend for HD content?<br>
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</div>Any Intel mini will play 19 Mbps Mpeg2 HD fine. You aren't trying to play HD over a wireless network connection, are you?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>No, it's a wired 100Mb ethernet connection. I tried it in a smaller window and it was choppy as well. <br></div></div>