[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Frontend - HDTV Capable?

Jeff Simpson llcooljeff at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 14:57:08 UTC 2005


> It should be ok. My powerbook can play 720p with no problems. 1080i does
> give it trouble but then its downscaling to 1440x900 to show it on the
> screen so its to be expected. If you connect it to an external monitor
> its fine.
> 
> For reference my power book has 1.5Ghz G4 1GB ram 128mb ATI card ( I
> forget the model number) so it equates almost exactly to a well specced
> mac mini. _______________________________________________

Excellent! Maybe that will be my next frontend, I've always wanted to
get a mac...

So I take it this article is no longer correct:

http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2349&p=4

It was mentioned in a previous thread on here, saying "The end result
is that anything above a 13Mbps stream ends up dropping frames on the
1.25GHz Mac mini, meaning that basically all HD streams are unplayable
on the mini even though they record fine."

Do you have some kind of hardware acceleration that the reviewers didn't, maybe?


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