[davilla]

Yes... would be great if there was hardware acceleration soon... Does anybody know how far it is away?
I would love to buy a new mac mini as HTPC... but hardware acceleration would make it so much cooler

Not unless there is an Apple API that exposes it and as an Apple developer, I would know if there is one coming. So forget about OSX hardware acceleration for now.

If you want hw assisted decoding, get the new MacMini and run Linux/VDPAU on it.

[Nuka1195]

davilla, do you recommend this?

i see reports of python problems on linux, but what i run, runs well in osx.

and by new, do new mac mini's have intel gfx?

[topfs2]

davilla, do you recommend this?

i see reports of python problems on linux, but what i run, runs well in osx.

and by new, do new mac mini's have intel gfx?

Nope, nvidia all the way!

[davilla]

davilla, do you recommend this?

i see reports of python problems on linux, but what i run, runs well in osx.

and by new, do new mac mini's have intel gfx?

Hehe, It should work fine but this is untested until someone actually gets one of the new MacMinis and installs Ubuntu/VDAPU on it.

[jonm42]

Hehe, It should work fine but this is untested until someone actually gets one of the new MacMinis and installs Ubuntu/VDAPU on it.

What do you think of doing this via VMWare or Parallels? Could you still get to the appropriate hardware?

[cusquinho]

What do you think of doing this via VMWare or Parallels? Could you still get to the appropriate hardware?

my guess is that it wont work, since you would need direct access to the gpu to get the VDPAU going... not a fake video display driver..

[johnny2]

Hm the *old* mac minis could handle 1080p h264

lol

[aaronb]

My 1.83 GHZ Mini has played every 1080p file I've tried just fine

[d4rk]

...and my graphics card is only slightly better (9500GT compared 9400M).

The 9500GT is roughly twice as powerful as the 9400M even though it sounds like it would be similarly spec-ed.

[BliBlaBlo]

Not unless there is an Apple API that exposes it and as an Apple developer, I would know if there is one coming. So forget about OSX hardware acceleration for now.

If you want hw assisted decoding, get the new MacMini and run Linux/VDPAU on it.

And do you think OpenCL will bring possibilities for GPU acceleration?

[mcka]

What do you think of doing this via VMWare or Parallels? Could you still get to the appropriate hardware?

What about using Bootcamp?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mac_mini
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_My...ing_Ubuntu
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Apple_Computer (german)

Should work fine and you should have access to VDAPU.

But I've some questions:

• Can anyone confirm that the new MacMini hardware works with Ubuntu?
• Is it fast enough for 1080p (mkv, high bitrates...)?
  
• Is 2 GHz fast enough (or is the 10% CPU upgrade option worth 140 EUR)?
  
• Is 1 GB RAM enough for Ubuntu/XBMC?
  
• Is 128MB grafics memory (shared) enough (small version)?
  
• Is it possible (and not too complicated) to replace the disk (2.5", 5400rpm) with SSD?
  
• DVI->HDMI should work just fine?
  
• Optical out for audio should work for multi-channel audio, right? What about HD-sound formats?
  
• Does Apple remote work with Ubuntu/XBMC?
  
• Is it possible (and not too complicated) to use another remote (like PS3 remote)?
  

I'd be very happy if someone with a new MacMini could post his experience here...

[Tsf42m]

What about using Bootcamp?

• Can anyone confirm that the new MacMini hardware works with Ubuntu?
  
• Is 1 GB RAM enough for Ubuntu/XBMC?
  
• Is it possible (and not too complicated) to replace the disk (2.5", 5400rpm) with SSD?
  
• DVI->HDMI should work just fine?
  
• Optical out for audio should work for multi-channel audio, right? What about HD-sound formats?
  
• Is it possible (and not too complicated) to use another remote (like PS3 remote)?
  

• I don't see why it wouldn't
  
• Yes but I would recommend at lest 2Gb
  
• Yes its possible and not too complicated... the mini is a bit tricky to open
  
• http://www.monoprice.com/products/produc...1&format=2
  
• Yes
  
• The PS3 remote is bluetooth so its pretty easy to set up
  

[Geeba]

My 1.83 GHZ Mini has played every 1080p file I've tried just fine

Not with XBMC it hasnt... uless they're extreemly low bit rate files, or your running Linux with hardware acceleration.....

[jbennett]

Anyone know if it is possible to do audio over the dvi (with an hdmi convertor) on the new mac mini? It's possible on other nvidia 9xxx series boards with an internal spdif connection.

[ultrabrutal]

Well that rules out HD audio formats so it's not interesting to me. Will wait for other ION boxes - for example Acer Hornet