[mythtv-users] Poor playback performance on Mac mini

[Yeechang Lee]

Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> says:
> Basically, I only managed to get video when using quartz/CoreVideo
> playback. This is only available in 32 bits in Carbon.
> 
> The grey screen you are seeing is the OpenGL playback not doing what
> it should.

No; playback is set to use the Standard decoder and quartz-blit
renderer, my usual settings. On my 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro,
Standard/quartz-blit on 0.24 gives me fine playback with both MPEG2
(40-50% usage on Activity Monitor) and 1280x720 MPEG4
(70-80%). VDA/OpenGL's never worked right for me, either giving me a
black screen (as they do now) or poor-quality playback with higher CPU
usage (as in the past), but again I haven't changed my Mac settings in
a long time.

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