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Is the mac mini proving to have the horsepower for 1080p h.264? Which CPU in the mini?
The shuttle solution would probably fit an e8400 which would put to rest any CPU horsepower issue.
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What about the GMA 950? Does it still have tearing?
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I think one of the great draws of the mini is how quite it is.
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I got $10 down that OS X by the 10.5.5 updates those psystar units won't accept anymore updates/will brick forcing all their owners to switch to OSX86 anyways.
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I would be interested to know how many different 1080p sources you have tested - and what sort of bitrates they reach at their peak.
I am using a Macbook with the 2.0Ghz C2D, not the Mac mini but I imagine they have about the same horsepower.
I have yet to find a 1080p source that plays flawlessly (no dropped frames)
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BigJim
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Other than the mac pro, apple's entire line is made of laptop components, just in different packages... mac book, mini, iMac. I think on all but the iMac the disk is crippled with a laptop drive. The Mac Mini uses a 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, like an iBook or a PowerBook, and these drives are not as fast as the 3.5-inch drives used in Power Macs. A workaround is to use an external 3.5" drive over firewire. That said, I don't think disk speed is causing your dropped frames. QuickTime is reputed to have slow h.264 codecs. On my PC at least, I found that a 1.86 GHz desktop processor was right at the edge of being able to render 1080p. I had to either overclock it to 2.8GHz, use different codecs, or both. The CoreAVC codec is faster than the "graphics card hardware assist" codecs. They've been talking about porting CoreAVC to the mac for years now, not sure what the current status is. Anyway, are you using osxbmc on your mac laptop and having this problem, because I think osxbmc has at least better than average codecs.
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yee379
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has any one tried running the kpc with a decent cpu (2.6Ghz+) with xbmc? i am particularly interested in the performance at *1080p* under the following:
1) under linux - i've read that the 950's driver suck under linux
2) mac osx
thanks!