[mythtv-users] NVIDIA Mac's as frontend on Linux?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Ken Mandelberg<km at mathcs.emory.edu>  
> wrote:
>> I'm used to running a Mac Mini with an intel graphics chip as a  
>> frontend
>> (and backend) on Ubuntu. It works well enough.
>>
>> I'm now looking at one of the Mac laptops with NVIDA 9400M  
>> graphics. Will
>> this work better or worse than intel graphics under Linux?
>>
>> Are their issues?
>
>
> It SHOULD work much better, and should even work with VDPAU.  There
> may be gotchas for the other hardware though (or there may not be).

SHOULD = DOES. My frontend is a mac mini with the nvidia graphics  
card. I also have a MacBook Pro with the same card and under linux,  
VDPAU and the nvidia drivers in general work just like they do on  
other machines. That is to say - excellent for the most part but with  
issues related to the nvidia drivers, not the hardware. Under OS X,  
the hardware acceleration works pretty much the same as the Intel  
video chips did. Ok for most things, but still hiccups on high bitrate  
h264 content (on my 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo mini).

-Brad