On 4/28/05, Jonathan Watmough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/27/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/27/05, Art Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/27/05, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Without hardware acceleration, a > > > > 3ghz PC can do it, and the 1.4ghz mac can't. End of discussion. > > > > > > > > > > I think the problem is that by definition, the two processor > > > architectures are not comparable (on Speed alone). To say that a 1.4 > > > ghz G5 is the same speed that a 1.4 ghz P4 is at best naive. I'm not > > > a mac evangelist, but Macs have been plenty fast for a very long time > > > with slower actual clockspeeds than wintel. We'll just have to wait > > > and see till someone takes the time to optimize them. > > > > > > Art > > What's going to be involved in doing this optimising ? I'd definitely like > to go 'Mac' > at some point if possible, but there's wouldn't be too much point until > there is > a version of mplayer, mythtv, xine etc that runs as good as on PC. > > Does anyone know what kind of shape mplayer on the Mac is in ? >
Mplayer on the mac is not great but it does exist. To be honest I haven't had a need to use it for over 6 months as VLC does everything I've asked it to. VLC very good. Xine its a work in progress ( http://xineplayer.berlios.de/ ) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
