[mythtv-users] questions on using Mac Mini as remote frontend...

Justin Kim justinlkim at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 22:26:01 UTC 2007


At 5:11 PM -0500 11/24/07, Craig Treleaven wrote:

>I'm very happy with the HD playback on both my 1.83 and 1.66 Minis! 
>There may be some minor glitches in the first 30 seconds of 
>playback.  I suspect Myth is quite memory hungry and stuff is 
>spooling off to VM.  After that, however, both are quite able to 
>keep up with anything I record.  That includes a couple of 1080i 
>channels that are using the full 19 Mbit stream.  IOW, I see no 
>difference between stuff playing live via the TV's ATSC receiver v. 
>shows that I've recorded with Myth.

Huh, that's interesting - my 1.66 pegs the processor and stutters 
horribly when playing back HD. There shouldn't be much VM paging, 
either - applications and OS are all just inside the 1GB installed in 
the machine.

Did you have to tweak the settings on your 1.66 mini to get 
acceptable HD playback?

Justin


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