2008-03-13, 21:50
I just wanted to say congratulations on a great product so far. As someone who has enjoyed XBMC on the xbox for years, and has only moved away to using a mac for a media center because of the lack of decoding power for HD content on the xbox, this is like a dream come true.
I only stumbled across this site also because I was disgusted that my fairly new and speedy MacbookPro couldn't play 1080p .mkvs with 5.1 audio with VLC, where as my friends with their lame and slower windows laptops could, and I can't stand quicktime or trying to hunt down codecs for it.
Given the early builds of osxbmc I didn't come in with high expectations, and I was very impressed - not only the interface and features that we know and love, and not only does 1080p with 5.1 audio play, it doesn't push my cores over 75%!! (at least with the couple movie snippits i've thrown at it so far, and I set the video rendering to hardware overlays)
I don't know how you guys got the speed for 1080p where others have failed to do so, but keep it up. I'll be donating for sure, and once there is full itunes support I'll likely use little else for all my media.
One question - does setting 'hardware overlays' for the video actually offload some of the work to the gpu? What does the team recommend for playing HD video content, as far as quality vs. performance?
Thanks!
I only stumbled across this site also because I was disgusted that my fairly new and speedy MacbookPro couldn't play 1080p .mkvs with 5.1 audio with VLC, where as my friends with their lame and slower windows laptops could, and I can't stand quicktime or trying to hunt down codecs for it.
Given the early builds of osxbmc I didn't come in with high expectations, and I was very impressed - not only the interface and features that we know and love, and not only does 1080p with 5.1 audio play, it doesn't push my cores over 75%!! (at least with the couple movie snippits i've thrown at it so far, and I set the video rendering to hardware overlays)
I don't know how you guys got the speed for 1080p where others have failed to do so, but keep it up. I'll be donating for sure, and once there is full itunes support I'll likely use little else for all my media.
One question - does setting 'hardware overlays' for the video actually offload some of the work to the gpu? What does the team recommend for playing HD video content, as far as quality vs. performance?
Thanks!