[mythtv-users] 1080i HD and macmini: Choppy playback

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I bought myself a brand new macmini (1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB of
>  memory) to use as a myth frontend.  I noticed that 1080i HD content
>  recorded from hdhomerun box doesn't play well on my 1080p LCD TV.  The
>  HD is watchable, but there are choppiness, ghosting and frame drops.
>
>  The osx mythfrontend binary was obtained from the sniderpad.com
>  (http://www.thesniderpad.com//component/option,com_remository/Itemid,36/).

Those are powerPC build. So your macmini is emulated the processor
using Rosetta. It won't run fast that way. Playing 1080i is rather
surprising, show how good the PPC emulation is !

I have put a Intel build (for Leopard) there:
http://avenard.org/iptv/MythFrontend.16486.intel.zip (using MythTV 0.21-fixes)

It's currently uploading will finish in 5 minutes.

There's an older release there too,
http://avenard.org/iptv/MythFrontend-0.22-Rev15447-Leopard-Intel.zip
but may not work if you have a later version of mythbackend running.

Jean-Yves