[mythtv-users] Apple announces VDPAU capable mac-mini!

[Fred Squires]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM, sonofzev at iinet.net.au
> <sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hey at the price of the hardware with video card e.t.c.... just load linux
>> on to
>> it and get the vdpau working on it.. no need for mac os.. (on the proviso
>> that
>> the apple remote is supported or you could get something else that may
>> work via
>> usb)..
>>
>> i know it looks expensive initially, but for a box that small and quiet,
>> this is
>> quite a nice piece of hardware...
>>
>>
>> On Wed Mar  4 16:18 , scram69  sent:
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>> >On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Close aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini\?mco=MTE3MDI
>> >>
>> >> 2.0GHz Core2Duo
>> >> up to 4GB RAM
>> >> nVidia 9400M
>> >>
>> >Anyone know if there will be support under OS X for VDPAU-like
>> >drivers?  I.e. will mythfrontend/mplayer/vlc running on Leopard be
>> >able to take advantage of offloading video processing onto the GPU?
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> One reason to keep Mac OS X on a mini frontend would be to keep the ability
> to stream Netflix movies, and access other DRM'd stuff that would otherwise
> not be available to a Linux system.  It would seem strange for Apple to put
> this card in the Mini and then ignore the VDPAU/Pure Video enabled hardware.
>   As I said earlier in this thread, if Apple ever decides to add a blu-ray
> player to the mini, you'd have something close to the perfect device.  Are
> there any slot-loading blu-ray players out there that could be swapped in?
> Then again, I suppose if you were able to do the hardware swap, until Apple
> releases blu-ray drives, it's unlikely they will release the software to
> make it work.

I've seen reports that the macbooks and macbook pros use the 9400M to
accelerate video playback, at least with h264.
Here's an article about on Gizmodo:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/10/new_macbooks_use_gpuaccelerated_h264_video_decoding-2.html

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