[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Video Acceleration Question (h.264)

[Bill Williamson]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Johan Heikkilä<johan.heikkila at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/15 Johan Heikkilä <johan.heikkila at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/8/14 Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>> But in all seriousness:
>>> -the CPU is not powerful enough to do good deinterlacing on 1080i
>>> -the GPU is not powerful enough "" "" """ ""
>>>
>>> What does that leave?  Has someone found a way to run shaders on the audio chip?
>>
>>
>> Maybe only improved drivers???
>>
>> I have a frontend with an Intel Graphics chip. MSI 945 GT Speedster
>> mainboard. I also have an Atom based Acer Aspire One laptop with the
>> same graphics cip. The current drivers are of no good quality. I
>> certainly welcome drivers with improved quality.
>>
>
> A little more speculation. Or maybe Intel is going to release the
> equivalent of CUDA and ffmpeg is including support for it... Who
> knows? There are at least Windows video encoding software that uses
> the CUDA SDK for off-loading the CPU, but because of the closed source
> architecture, ffmpeg has not so far been interested in including
> support for it (as I understood). I'm not sure if it helps in
> rendering of video, though. Enough...


Even with CUDA the GPU in the original mac mini is too weak for
anything meaningful.  Even apple don't support it for their 10.6 video
acceleration.