On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:05 -0500, David Abrahams wrote: > However, when I use VLC to play the same file, it looks almost > perfect, with only barely perceptible jerkiness due, presumably, to > the fact that my Mac Mini can't quite keep up with playback. I > grepped the MythTV source for CONFIG_DARWIN to find the > Darwin-specific playback code, but came up empty. Perhaps we *need* > some darwin-specific playback code? And if Darwin-specific playback > code turns out to help, doesn't it indicate that the playback code > MythTV is using for all other platforms today could be a whole lot > more efficient? Nigel may correct me, but I believe that there is no hardware optimization of the OSX playback. This being the case, I doubt any Mac can keep up with HDTV, Mac Mini least of all.
> Also: does all MythTV playback go through NuppelVideoPlayer? Yep. It is no longer appropriately named. > If this is really something that can be fixed by configuration rather > than programming, my apologies in advance, but so far I think it's a > developer issue. I doubt this will get fixed unless someone gives Nigel a check that allows him to take a 2 month sabbatical from his regular job to work on hardware accelerated OS X video output. -- Daniel
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