| The Mac Mini is a low cost Macintosh ($500). It is just a small computer (2inches x 6.5 in x 6.5 in.). It does not come with a keyboard, mouse, monitor or enough RAM. It is designed to be fully functional, but inexpensive- and it's quiet. I think it comes with a bit small of a hard drive and not enough RAM. The system bus may be a little slower than other computers as well, but I'm sure it works for MythFrontEnd just fine. If you're serious, I'll pick one up to test on (I'm an Apple guy). Mac is a unix machine so it's not too different from other unixes out there (which is why Myth could be ported to it).
The mini has DVI out and an included DVI to VGA adapter. An S video out adapter is $19. There's a nice port of MythFrontEnd out there so I can just run it on my Mac laptop and point it to my Linux backend.
And I do run MythOnMac on my laptop - over wireless even. I have an old 802.11b router so I get a 1/2 second pause every 3 seconds of show. Kinda annoying, but to watch the game and keep up on the score while i wash dishes, it works just fine. Someday I'll get an 802.11g router and I hope that'll fix it.
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
Todd On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:09 PM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Thanks Todd, Which version of the mac is the "mini"? I'm sorry I'm not too familiar with Macs, I'm just interested in finding out more about different alternatives for frontends. Is this an older mac? Does it already come with an appropriate video card? It's awesome to think mythtv can run on a laptop...! Ricardo ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Need suggestion for Frontend only fanless solution
I'm running a front end (not to TV) on my Mac G4 laptop (1.6Ghz)- which has a hair more power than the mini. Here, I'm using 33% of my CPU when watching a show. The show is recorded with a PVR350 at high quality (720x480?). Seeing as the mini is only a little less brainy than this machine, I think it would work just fine as a front end. I don't know anything about HDTV though. The S-video output adapter is an optional purchase for $19; it comes with DVI and VGA output.
btw- on a remote front end, when I pause live tv, that's still using the buffer defined on the back end, right? Starting a show, I hear the hard drive buzzing away in my laptop...
Todd On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Does this mini-mac solution work well for a frontend?
What model / version of the mac is this?
Ricardo
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