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

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> 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]

That content already seems to happily play on a Linux mini backends.

If you can point us to some "better examples", those of us that
are running mini frontends can put them through their paces.

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