<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:01 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><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">On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:42:42AM -0500, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, jedi <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > The AppleTV (nv based) and the Mini (Intel based) both seem to do<br>
> > well enough. I quickly dumped ATI after using it on my first dedicated<br>
> > frontend and will never use their stuff again.<br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> So it's an ATI driver issue? Anything I can do? It seems a real shame that a<br>
> pretty beefy machine like this can't push HD or even SD, when my less<br>
> powerful Macbook laptop could render them just fine. I suppose I could<br>
<br>
</div> Well, depending on what video chipset is in the laptop it could be<br>
much better suited to playing video. The chipset in Apple's current "cheap"<br>
laptop supports full hardware acceleration of h264 playback (HD even) under<br>
Linux.<br>
<br>
For MacOS, I wouldn't expect ATI to be quite so bad but you can never tell.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
> install Ubuntu on it, I wonder if I can wedge it into my NTFS Windows 7<br>
> partition via Wubi...<br>
<br>
</div></blockquote></div>I've had decent luck with a G4 eMac with an ATI Radeon 7500 video card. It woudln't work with Ubuntu, but Debian seemed to work with the card. I was also able to run on OSX 10.4 with an copy of mythtv frontend .20 from thesniderpad, but when .21 came out, I could no longer play SD recordings on the machine. <br>