[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Video Acceleration Question (h.264)
Peter Loron
peterl at standingwave.org
Thu Oct 8 22:28:36 UTC 2009
On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Scott D. Davilla wrote:
>> On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> jedi wrote:
>>>> It's certainly an intriguing prospect. I am not sure I would
>>>> want to open up an ATV though. It's really cool that more
>>>> hardware of this sort
>>>> is getting Linux support.
>>>>
>>> I certainly look forward to being able to use my ATV for more than
>>> just a paperweight.
>>> Jeff.
>>
>> Yeah! This will be a great addition to ATV. Another 256M of RAM
>> would be nifty, too. :-)
>
> Dream on, it's not really needed and there's a trick under Linux
> with the nvidia driver to re-gain 64MBs that the drive steals.
I've done that hack, and the FE is still slooooow when switching
between menus, starting up movies, etc. Yes, this is with the lowest
memory theme I can find, and nothing else running. It works, but
trying to explain to my wife that she needs to not hammer the arrow
button on the remote is hard..."just wait for it to catch up, honey."
-Pete
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