[mythtv-users] Is the Acer Revo still the best frontend?

Matt Emmott memmott at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 16:01:15 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Justin Kim <justinlkim at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 7:47 AM -0600 11/9/10, jedi wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:08:58AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>
>
>   See also: Apple Mac Mini.
>>>
>>
>>   Tried that. It wasn't very satisfying. Flash seems to want a CPU that
>> can
>> handle HD h264 easily on a single core. It doesn't seem to multithread
>> very
>> well. Although it can multithread well enough to use up every spare cycle
>> on
>> every core you happen to have.
>>
>
> Were you having problems with the Mini running OS X or Linux?  I just
> replaced an old Core Duo (note the missing "2") Mini that could handle most
> anything I threw at it under OS X.
>
>
 We're veering off-topic but I have to ask: Did you run H.264 on your mini?
I have a 1.83GHZ Core Duo iMac that won't run H.264 (unless I run the
crystalHD) under Linux, and I really haven't played with it as an FE under
OS X. If it'll run H.264 under OS X I may give it a closer look.
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