[mythtv-users] 0.25 on mac-mini
Craig Treleaven
ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Mon Apr 23 17:31:07 UTC 2012
At 9:40 AM -0700 4/23/12, Sean Whitney wrote:
>On 04/23/2012 09:28 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 24 April 2012 01:25, Sean Whitney <sean.whitney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My mac mini was almost flawless in playback under 0.24. Now any 1080
>>> recordings play back with stuttering audio/video. The HD test video
>>> under setup plays back flawlessly.
>>>
>>> I'm using the latest build on sourceforge. I've attached log files of
>>> the playback error and specific of the file.
>>>
>>> Any help would be great!
>>
>> Use the VDA Normal profile instead of VDA High Quality
>>
>> I have serious doubt that what did play in 0.24 now wouldn't play in
>> 0.25 all things considered. Mac mini with a nvidia 320M use a Core 2
>> Duo at 2.4GHz max, that doesn't have enough grunt for some of the
>> videos created by the HD-PVR
>>
>> You must have changed something, such as the video type being decoded,
>> the video profile used to decode.
>>
>> Were you using VDA with 0.24 too?
>I've tried all the VDA (normal, slim) profiles with basically similar
>results. I was using the blit (xv-blit or quartz-blit) with the mini
>prior to this. I don't think the version of 0.24 had the VDA profile
>included, or if it did I wasn't using it.
>
>As for 1080 playback there were occasion blips or slow downs but it was
>barely noticeable with 0.24 but now with 0.25 the 1080 content isn't
>watchable.
Top posting fixed.
Are you rolling your own (osx-packager[-qtsdk].pl)? It would be
interesting to see if a 32 bit version using Quartz can actually play
these recordings. I know the theory is that 64 bit is better, etc.
But real life doesn't always pay attention to our theories!
Craig
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