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

Justin Kim justinlkim at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 17:19:36 UTC 2007


At 8:05 AM -0500 11/27/07, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>At 11:41 PM -0500 11/26/07, Justin Kim wrote:
>>I think that's the problem.  I'm running at 1080i.
>>
>>I certainly hope I can get it to work. Just ordered a new 1080p 40"
>>and would hate to run it at 720.
>
>You do know that 1080i is only about 15% more video data than 720p, 
>right?  Unless there are issues in the code path, that seems 
>unlikely to be the source of your problem.  Why don't you try a 720p 
>resolution as a test?

	My mini doesn't do 720p on my TV, but my 2.33 MBP does.  That 
machine also has choppy 1080i output (but not as bad as the mini) but 
very smooth 720.

	This is the thread about 1080 playback under OS X: 
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294605>

	The problem seems to be a transform function QuickTime is 
doing on the video.

Justin



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