[mythtv-users] New Mac OS X Build Process--MacPorts

[Yeechang Lee]

I concentrated so much on look and feel in my last comparison of the
prebuilt and MacPorts self-compiled mythfrontends that I completely
neglected the completely unimportant topic of playback! Turns out here
is a substantial difference. The MacPorts version uses 75% on Activity
Monitor to play a MPEG-2 1080i recording with Kernel 2X deinterlacing;
the prebuilt one uses about 115%. (Makes me now glad that for years
I've only used self-compiled MythTV RPMs on Linux.) Being able to use
VDA erases the gap; I see 45% with both frontends when playing a 720p
h.264 file.

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Q: "Record HD cable/satellite?" A: Hauppauge HD-PVR, $200 @ Newegg
Q: "Can't change Live TV channels w/multirec!" A: Hit NEXTCARD key
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