Optimal settings on Mac Mini 2011

My optimal settings with my ´11 Mini starts with Snow Leopard.
Fewer updates, no sleep/resume problems or black screen when waking up.

(2012-12-18 09:43)nmirza Wrote:  go to system prefs/display there should be an option there to check/uncheck overscan. With my sony tv as well as a samsung i had to select/unselect it for it to work. Also if its checked, try unchecking and then checking. this worked for me once.

Thanks for the input nmirza. I assume you're talking about OSX, not the TV and not XBMC. There is no overscan check or option. There is an underscan slider (from none to "more"). As I mentioned above, I had to turn it halfway up to fit XBMC on my TV.

Ned, I did try deleting the guisettings.xml. Didn't fix it (although I'm not sure what "fixed" should look like), although it behaved differently. I set up the displays both mirrored and unmirrored before starting XBMC without the guisettings, it made no difference. XBMC is too big for my screen.

Now however, when I checked XBMC's video calibration, it was way outside the screen. When I adjusted it in, and went back to the regular interface, it was the correct dimensions without turning up underscan in OSX.

Puzzling.

(2012-07-31 09:15)endeler Wrote:  I have a Mac Mini 2011 with the AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics adapter. Unfortunately there's no chance to play mkv-files with activated hardware acceleration. The picture is stuttering in a strange way and impossible to watch. I run the latest build from the margro-tree with pvr integration. Does anybody have the same problem?

I have the same Mac Mini but no problems with stuttering. It plays all videos fine.
Sorry for the late answer but i got my Mac Mini since last month (End Oct.) and i'm testing and testing ...

(2012-06-24 20:45)KillerBob Wrote:  Hi,

Trying to get the best experience also means playing around with the "general" settings in XBMC. So, I'll post what I have it set up as, and if anyone has any better suggestions, let's share these. I have not listed the ones I believe are specific to Amps, TVs, etc.

On a Mac Mini, the Mid 2011 (w. HDMI), Intel HD Graphics 3000, running OSX 10.7.4 (11E53). Using XBMC 12.0 Alpha3 Git:20120622

+ System/Setting/Video output: Vertical blank sync - Always enabled.

+ System/Video/Playback: Render method - Auto detect, Allow hardware acceleration (VDADecoder) - on, Adjust display refresh rate to match video - off, Sync playback to display - off, Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars - non, Display 4:3 videos as - Wide Zoom.


/Bo

Why you deactivate this two options ? I'm not sure but if you got a 24p Movie should the display rate not be adjustet ? The same thing to Sync playback.
Maybe anyone could explain me the two things ?