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

[WiFi Fun]

mine has worked in the past with .18, but since svn, and now .19 it is
not able to playback the video. Hardware has not changed, but for a
while there I was not using the mini as a frontend. Now, I would like
to again, but it just won't do it. I will have to watch the cpu usage
and see what is going on. Is there a way to get verbose output from
the osx frontend?

On 2/28/06, Todd Ignasiak <ignasiak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2/28/06, WiFi Fun <wififun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For those with current MacMini's, have you had any luck using it for
> > playback of non HD myth tv content. I have a knoppmyth back/frontent
> > with .19 and the frontend on my mini stutters and chokes. The
> > recordings are PVRx50 at about 5mbps, over gige network. Though the
> > mini is only 100, throughput is not the problem. The frontend just
> > can't playback the video. On my wifes iMac g5, and my big PowerMac,
> > the frontend works fine. What do you current folks do with your mini's
> > as frontends? Though I think once it is compiled for intel macs, I may
> > sell my current one, and pick up a new one.
>
> I was just playing around with the 0.19 MacOS X frontend last night on both
> my 1.25GHz PowerBook G4 and my 1.42GHz Mini.   ESPN played just fine on both
> machines.   My backend is a Linux box with a PVR-500 dual tuner card  (as
> well as a couple HD cards, which neither Mac could handle).
>
>
> > On 2/28/06, Todd Ignasiak <ignasiak at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/28/06, Trey Boudreau <trey at treysoft.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah, they clearly claim 1080i/p support on that web page.  It'll be
> > > interesting to see how it really performs.
> > >
> > > Two other video questions I have:
> > >
> > > - What is "High Definition Content Decode - up to two stream support"
> from
> > > their datasheet??   I assume their not talking about MPEG decoders, like
> in
> > > the Unichrome..  Given the otherwise weak MPEG2 offload capabilities (MC
> > > support, but no iDCT).   Is this anything real, or just marketing-speak
> for
> > > something less exciting?
> > >
> > > - Is the 950 'Core Video' capable, to support all the MacOS GUI effects,
> and
> > > interesting video processing capabiltiies?    I suspect 'yes', given the
> > > specs about Dx9 support and Pixel Shaders.
> > >
> > >
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