[mythtv-users] Apple X11 or XDarwin?

[Andrew Close]

On 9/11/07, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > In short, it's great to be able to use my macbook as a frontend, but it
> > > would suck as a dedicated frontend.
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> > not to hijack this thread... but has anyone tried running Myth on
> > Linux via Parallels on OS X?  then maybe you'd have the best of both
> > worlds; although you may want more RAM in that case. :)
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> Linux under parallels doesn't provide access to any hardware acceleration
> for video, and can't handle HD playback.  The new VMWare offering might
> address this, but I really don't know.

interesting.  especially considering Parallels running Windows
supposedly does have hardware acceleration for gaming now.  or maybe
that's just the current beta...