[mythtv-users] 1080i HD and macmini: Choppy playback

[Wade Maxfield]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I bought myself a brand new macmini (1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB of
>>  memory) to use as a myth frontend.  I noticed that 1080i HD content
>>  recorded from hdhomerun box doesn't play well on my 1080p LCD TV.  The
>>  HD is watchable, but there are choppiness, ghosting and frame drops.
>>
>>  The osx mythfrontend binary was obtained from the sniderpad.com
>>  (http://www.thesniderpad.com//component/option,com_remository/Itemid,36/).
> 
> Those are powerPC build. So your macmini is emulated the processor
> using Rosetta. It won't run fast that way. Playing 1080i is rather
> surprising, show how good the PPC emulation is !
> 

Some of them were PPC builds, some are universal binaries (I built the 
Intel part of them for David)

The OP didn't say which they downloaded...

  - Wade