[mythtv-users] 0.25 on mac-mini

[Dan Wilga]

On 4/23/12 12:49 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 24 April 2012 02:40, Sean Whitney<sean.whitney at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I've tried all the VDA (normal, slim) profiles with basically similar
>> results.  I was using the blit (xv-blit or quartz-blit) with the mini
>> prior to this.  I don't think the version of 0.24 had the VDA profile
>> included, or if it did I wasn't using it.
>>      
> Quartz is only available on , which isn't available on 64 bits
> platform. Not sure what the osx-sourceforge folks are using
>    
>> As for 1080 playback there were occasion blips or slow downs but it was
>> barely noticeable with 0.24 but now with 0.25 the 1080 content isn't
>> watchable.
>>      
> it's surprising it ever worked. from the various reports here, without
> hardware decoding, for the HD stream from the HD-PVR, you need>  3GHz
> C2D.
> I now that I've never managed to watch those files with my mini (320M
> with C2D 2.4GHz) hence why I boot on ubuntu and use VDPAU
>
> maybe something else changed on your hd-pvr.
>
> I could build a version that force using VDA for deinterlaced content.
> but be aware that it may crash your mac completely
>    
I can also confirm that this is a problem with my late 2006 MacBook Pro, 
running 10.6.8 in 64-bit mode. I had been using Quartz in 0.24 
(self-compiled) with no problems decoding or playing 1080i MKV content 
from a HDPVR. I don't recall what profile I was using, but I'll check 
when I get home.

I haven't yet tried the VDA profiles in 0.25, but OpenGL High Quality 
and "Normal" stutter so badly as to be unusable.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."