[mythtv-users] Poor playback performance on Mac mini

[joenyland at me.com]

On 13 Mar, 2012,at 01:24 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 March 2012 00:12, <joenyland at me.com> wrote:
> > Quick question though: is there a way to dump/export a list of
> > recordings/rules which would allow me to start with a fresh database? Or am
> > I safe enough to keep my current DB when upgrading to 0.25?
>
> none officially supported.

Ok, not to worry. It was more of a convenience thing, rather than a requirement.
>
> But you would be fine upgrading anyway. Just make a backup should you
> want to go back... You will loosed everything that you will do between
> the time you made the backup and the time you restore...
>
> So if you want to go back and you only intend to test it... don't wait too long!
 
Understood.
>
> the mac build is certainly more stable than it used to be
>
> >
> > Hopefully the hardware accelerated video is the thing I'm missing in Myth
> > which I should get from the upgrade, as you have pointed out.
>
> I think even without the hardware decoding you would be fine...
> playback is now full OpenGL, you get better performance there than the
> old Quartz (Quartz is still supported though, just not available on 64
> bits build)
 
Fingers crossed! :-)

Thanks,

Joe
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