[mythtv-users] 2010 Mac mini: no go! (Nvidia MCP89 SATA issues)

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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Scott D. Davilla <davilla at 4pi.com> wrote:
>>  > For those of us OSX'ers who may be looking at some new hardware soon,
>>>
>>>  would it be possible to get you to elaborate on "yet"? i.e. do you
>>>  expect to see support in the next release or two,
>>
>> Apple added an API in Mac OS X 10.6.3 to make it possible, and folks
>> are aware of it, but nobody has yet committed to doing the work. As
>> Scott alluded to, xbmc trunk has recently added support for it. No
>> clue what's involved in adding it to MythTV.
>>
>>>  and would that
>>>  support work with the previous generation mini (9400M) or just the
>>>  latest 320M?
>>
>> Both. (Also appears to work on the 9600M GT in my MacBook Pro, unless
>> the 9400M is silently kicking in w/o my knowledge).
>
> It's a dead simple API, detect h.264, if in byte-stream format (ffmpeg
> extradata stuff), convert to avcC and pump it in. picture frames come out as
> 2vuy. See
> http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/trunk/xbmc/cores/dvdplayer/DVDCodecs/Video/DVDVideoCodecVDA.cpp
>
> The only real issue is you will need to link to
> VideoDecodeAcceleration.framework unless MythTV supports dynamic loading.

OK.  Appreciate the clarification.  Thanks-