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

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> 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?
>
> 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.

I like the idea of using an external Blu-Ray drive. First you can move
it from frontend to frontend as needed and is much cheaper than buying
one to fit in the Mini. You can even find some nice external
enclosures that wouldn't look horribly ugly next to the mini.

Just a thought. Not that there is any software for OSX that can play
Blu-Ray discs yet though...

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