<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM, <a href="mailto:sonofzev@iinet.net.au">sonofzev@iinet.net.au</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sonofzev@iinet.net.au">sonofzev@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hey at the price of the hardware with video card e.t.c.... just load linux on to<br>
it and get the vdpau working on it.. no need for mac os.. (on the proviso that<br>
the apple remote is supported or you could get something else that may work via<br>
usb)..<br>
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i know it looks expensive initially, but for a box that small and quiet, this is<br>
quite a nice piece of hardware...<br>
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On Wed Mar 4 16:18 , scram69 sent:<br>
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>On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Close <a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <a href="http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini" target="_blank">http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini</a>\?mco=MTE3MDI<br>
>><br>
>> 2.0GHz Core2Duo<br>
>> up to 4GB RAM<br>
>> nVidia 9400M<br>
>><br>
>Anyone know if there will be support under OS X for VDPAU-like<br>
>drivers? I.e. will mythfrontend/mplayer/vlc running on Leopard be<br>
>able to take advantage of offloading video processing onto the GPU?<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>One reason to keep Mac OS X on a mini frontend would be to keep the ability to stream Netflix movies, and access other DRM'd stuff that would otherwise not be available to a Linux system. It would seem strange for Apple to put this card in the Mini and then ignore the VDPAU/Pure Video enabled hardware. As I said earlier in this thread, if Apple ever decides to add a blu-ray player to the mini, you'd have something close to the perfect device. Are there any slot-loading blu-ray players out there that could be swapped in? Then again, I suppose if you were able to do the hardware swap, until Apple releases blu-ray drives, it's unlikely they will release the software to make it work. <br>