[mythtv-users] HDTV solution @1080i ???

[Carl-Magnus Björkell]

zoiks2004-ivtv at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'll tell you what doesn't work (at least for me). 
>> A mac mini
>> frontend and the mythfrontend.  It plays 720p
>> beautifully, but the
>> mythfrontend has a hard time with 1080i shows.  This
>> really pisses me
>> off since I recently bought the mac mini just for a
>> HD frontend.
>> However, VLC plays it fine at full resolution.  The
>> mac is running osx
>> and the osx port of the mythtv frontend.  There are
>> many threads on
>> this mailing list that talks about this.
> 
> Sorry to hear about your difficulties with the mac. I
> googled myth HD with high def, nVidia cards, HDMI,
> different TVs, etc., and I found a lot of
> difficulties. So I assumed it would be a difficult
> thing to get it going right.
> 
> It wasn't, at least for me, as I describe elsewhere in
> this thread. It was mostly plug-n-play (used mythbuntu
> this time, vs before which was roll-yer-own system
> based on SuSE 9.2 what a nightmare). I guess if you
> google stuff about myth you see lots of problems when
> things don't work, and you don't see much when things
> work fine.
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Just for the record: That's because SuSE 9.2 was a piece of crap version 
that should have never seen the light of day. 9.1, 9.3 and especially 
10.0 is a breeze to use. 9.2 is the black-sheep relative no-one wants to 
acknowledge.

... just for the record :)

-Calle