[mythtv-users] Apple announces VDPAU capable mac-mini!

[allan k]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 08:18 -0500, Josh White wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM, sonofzev at iinet.net.au
> <sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>         
>         Hey at the price of the hardware with video card e.t.c....
>         just load linux on to
>         it and get the vdpau working on it.. no need for mac os.. (on
>         the proviso that
>         the apple remote is supported or you could get something else
>         that may work via
>         usb)..
>         
>         i know it looks expensive initially, but for a box that small
>         and quiet, this is
>         quite a nice piece of hardware...
>         
>         
>         On Wed Mar  4 16:18 , scram69  sent:
>         
>         
>         >On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Close
>         aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >>
>         http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini
>         \?mco=MTE3MDI
>         >>
>         >> 2.0GHz Core2Duo
>         >> up to 4GB RAM
>         >> nVidia 9400M
>         >>
>         >Anyone know if there will be support under OS X for
>         VDPAU-like
>         >drivers?  I.e. will mythfrontend/mplayer/vlc running on
>         Leopard be
>         >able to take advantage of offloading video processing onto
>         the GPU?
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> One reason to keep Mac OS X on a mini frontend would be to keep the
> ability to stream Netflix movies, and access other DRM'd stuff that
> would otherwise not be available to a Linux system.  It would seem
> strange for Apple to put this card in the Mini and then ignore the
> VDPAU/Pure Video enabled hardware.   As I said earlier in this thread,
> if Apple ever decides to add a blu-ray player to the mini, you'd have
> something close to the perfect device.  Are there any slot-loading
> blu-ray players out there that could be swapped in?  Then again, I
> suppose if you were able to do the hardware swap, until Apple releases
> blu-ray drives, it's unlikely they will release the software to make
> it work.  


very good point you have there... 
maybe the next release (a year or so from now I guess).. will be the
perfect frontend