Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

[Jarod Wilson]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> 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.

Not lately, I haven't. But I do have OS X installed on it still (even  
recently upgraded to 10.5).

> 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/

1920x1080p output has always Just Worked with my TV and mini, both  
under Linux and OS X, don't have to go through any such trickery.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com