Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Ouch; that really motivates me to give up on the Mac for a frontend. Your estimate of the work involved is slightly surprising considering that there are some fine high-level interfaces for OSX playback that are nearly fast enough. Why don't you think we could use those? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
_______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
