[mythtv-users] myth front end on new mac mini core 2 duo?
Jason
spuppet at comcast.net
Wed Mar 18 05:26:57 UTC 2009
Hi Damian,
> Does anyone have an direct experience (or know someone/URL) of getting one
> of the new Mac Mini (upper model - the one with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
> with 256MB of shared DDR3 SDRAM) working with the OS X mythfrontend ?
>
> If so... can you answer... does it play HD (1080i) content without trouble?
I just got a new mini yesterday. It's the base model.
I downloaded the latest -fixes branch release of the frontend and played with that for a short while. I didn't do any scientific testing, but it didn't appear that any acceleration was in use. The video played back fine, but it seemed a bit sluggish in fast moving scenes and after jumps forward. I don't see any evidence that GPU acceleration is being used. (I didn't see any evidence that it wasn't being used either.)
I've installed mythbuntu on a bootcamp partition using the instructions here: http://blog.costan.us/2009/03/ubuntu-810-or-904-on-mac-mini.html The video playback performance in that installation "feels" a bit better. My goal is to get VDPAU working on it in the next few days.
Jason
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