Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Feb 1 08:51:38 EST 2008


On Feb 1, 2008, at 00:55, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> Finally got around to some testing on this front. I tried xine,
> mplayer and mythfrontend, starting out first with 1280x720p h.264
> content. Well, mythfrontend failed miserably with h.264 content
> period, the audio was garbled and playback a bit jerky. mplayer fared
> a bit better. Audio is just fine, video is just fine, but there was a
> noticeable hitch in playback every 10 seconds or so. Interestingly, it
> isn't cpu-bound in either the mythfrontend or mplayer case, it just
> doesn't play back very well.


Just curious - have you tried mythfrontend on OSX on this box? I  
wonder about the relative optimization of video drivers.

FYI, I saw this the other day about getting 1080p under OSX:
   http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/24/yes-you-can-get-1080p-out-of-a- 
mac-mini/

-Bill

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