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[MAC] VDADecoder performance over HDMI on new Mac Mini?
nugentgl Wrote:Booyah!

I played many bluray rips with bit rates around 30 and all played flawlessly.

Thanks Davilla for all your hard work (Mac and iOS).

And a big thanks for the macmini Smile
Is this fix for 10.6.4 and above?
smush420 Wrote:Is this fix for 10.6.4 and above?

well, thats where its broke...yes
Can anyone confirm whether this also works for the Late 2009 Mac Mini? I have been having the exact same problems as with the new Mac Mini. I will try this tonight anyway.

Thanks a lot for all the work to the development team!
thanks for the fix !!!

one little question:this affects only mkv's with h264,or does it also something for movies in vc-1?
fnordz Wrote:thanks for the fix !!!

one little question:this affects only mkv's with h264,or does it also something for movies in vc-1?

It certainly fixes the h.264 problem. I can play back some pretty impressive test clips. Is vc-1 the codec that was mainly used in the HD standard that lost out to Blu-Ray, or is it also a popular Blu-Ray codec?

Philip
davilla Wrote:And a big thanks for the macmini Smile

Really impressive fix. Thank you.

Philip
fnordz Wrote:thanks for the fix !!!

one little question:this affects only mkv's with h264,or does it also something for movies in vc-1?

VDADecoder only handles h264.
@ davilla:thanks for the answer,i wasn't sure about this.
so for now the only solution for smooth playback of some problematic mkv's with vc-1 codec would be to transcode them into h264.
fnordz Wrote:@ davilla:thanks for the answer,i wasn't sure about this.
so for now the only solution for smooth playback of some problematic mkv's with vc-1 codec would be to transcode them into h264.

The 2.4GHz core2duo should have enough ponies with ffmpeg decode to handle vc1.
davilla Wrote:The 2.4GHz core2duo should have enough ponies with ffmpeg decode to handle vc1.


so far my mac mini 2010 handles vc1 in xbmc quite good.
cpu is arround 100%-120% ,but playback is fine except 1-2 very little freezes in some movies.
Davilla,

I have a mac mini 2009 running 10.6.3. Is 10.6.6 required for the patched version?

I ask because I have XMBC crashing playing any mkv file. These files play fine in the Dharma version.

Error log:http://pastebin.com/HEhas43J

XBMC Log : http://pastebin.com/PG544Kar

fileinfo MKV :http://pastebin.com/cg83GD9M

First file played is a 1:1 mts2 blu-file which plays fine
Second file played is a mkv file, which works in Dharma
MBP late 2009 - TimeCapsule 2TB - Harmony One+ - Readynas NV+ 8TB RAID5 - Mac Mini late 2009 with 10.9.0 and VDA - Panasonic TX-PG420ES -
idioteque Wrote:Davilla,

I have a mac mini 2009 running 10.6.3. Is 10.6.6 required for the patched version?

I ask because I have XBMC crashing playing any mkv file. These files play fine in the Dharma version.

Error log:http://pastebin.com/HEhas43J

XBMC Log : http://pastebin.com/PG544Kar

fileinfo MKV :http://pastebin.com/cg83GD9M

First file played is a 1:1 mts2 blu-file which plays fine
Second file played is a mkv file, which works in Dharma

Humm, not sure. I started my tests under 10.6.4
It appears that running 10.6.6 seems to fix the problem.

Perhaps an idea to make 10.6.4 required for using VDA inside XBMC
MBP late 2009 - TimeCapsule 2TB - Harmony One+ - Readynas NV+ 8TB RAID5 - Mac Mini late 2009 with 10.9.0 and VDA - Panasonic TX-PG420ES -
idioteque Wrote:Perhaps an idea to make 10.6.4 required for using VDA inside XBMC

Why do that when VDA worked fine in 10.6.3 (as stated in this thread many many times).
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