2010-08-10, 19:20
I don't have an ATV, but I'm running XBMC on my 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac Mini. I've only very recently become aware of the CrystalHD card. My video content is almost exclusively straight DVD rips (no extra compression or conversion). My biggest gripe with my current setup is that playing DVD images with XBMC taxes the Mini's CPU to the point that the case fan is always running at full blast.
Here's my question: Would the CrystalHD board be pressed into action playing plain old DVD VIDEO_TS stuff? And would this offload enough cycles from the CPU to slow down the fan?
Here's my question: Would the CrystalHD board be pressed into action playing plain old DVD VIDEO_TS stuff? And would this offload enough cycles from the CPU to slow down the fan?