[mythtv-users] A paradigm shift is coming. Are you ready?

[Yeechang Lee]

Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org> says:
> If all you are using a box for is a media centre, then Intel offers
> good value, particularly if you are trying for a quiet, small
> form-factor machine.  I think the new Intel Mac Minis (or something
> custom-built to a similar spec) would be perfectly capable of
> handling HDTV, for example.
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC

Yes, but what about in the dawning age of Yadif and h.264? This was my
point. For example, until this week I was planning on eventually
buying a Mac mini as a bedroom frontend. The Mac mini's 2.0GHz Core 2
Duo and GMA950 is great for high-definition MPEG-2 content, but unless
developers can truly do wonders with the newly-released technical
data, we're not going to see 1920x1080 h.264 content be playable in
Linux.[1]

[1] As opposed to in OS X, for which Apple has its own video drivers
and optimized codecs.

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