[mythtv-users] New Mac Mini, ultimate MythTV HD frontend?

[Trey Boudreau]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:33:55PM -0500, Tom Dombrosky wrote:
> On 2/28/06, Trey Boudreau <trey at treysoft.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:24:04PM -0500, Mike Frisch wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:51:21AM -0800, Todd Ignasiak wrote:
> > > > The dual core intel processor has plenty of horsepower for HD
> > > > MPEG2 decoding.
> > >
> > > Can the Intel 950 video chipset handle it though?
> > >
> > According to the Intel specs, yes:
> >
> >         http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/
> >
> > Intel has had notoriously bad drivers for their graphics chipsets in the
> > Windows world.  Let's hope Apple wrote their own :-)
> 
> Don't the intel drivers not work with video over 1440 in linux?  I think I
> remember seeing that somewhere on this mailing list.
> 
It seems like older versions of the chipset might not handle 1080i
video.  The datasheet seems to indicate that the 950 does.  I couldn't
find the programming manual for it on the Intel site, so I can't say for
sure.

-- Trey