[mythtv-users] myth front end on new mac mini core 2 duo?

Adam Stylinski kungfujesus06 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 18:21:27 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:26:57PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> Hi Damian,
> 
> > Does anyone have an direct experience (or know someone/URL) of getting one
> > of the new Mac Mini (upper model - the one with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
> > with 256MB of shared DDR3 SDRAM) working with the OS X mythfrontend ?
> > 
> > If so... can you answer... does it play HD (1080i) content without trouble?
> 
> I just got a new mini yesterday.  It's the base model.
> 
> I downloaded the latest -fixes branch release of the frontend and played with that for a short while.  I didn't do any scientific testing, but it didn't appear that any acceleration was in use.  The video played back fine, but it seemed a bit sluggish in fast moving scenes and after jumps forward.  I don't see any evidence that GPU acceleration is being used.  (I didn't see any evidence that it wasn't being used either.)
> 
> I've installed mythbuntu on a bootcamp partition using the instructions here:  http://blog.costan.us/2009/03/ubuntu-810-or-904-on-mac-mini.html   The video playback performance in that installation "feels" a bit better.  My goal is to get VDPAU working on it in the next few days.
> 
> Jason
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Wait doesn't the "Quartz" acceleration option automatically use OS X's built in GPU acceleration?  The latest Leopard I thought integrated that functionality right into the video API.
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