Comments on: Mac mini for movies? http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/01/21/mac-mini-for-movies/ by Mark Mayo Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mark http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/01/21/mac-mini-for-movies/#comment-909 mark Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:36:42 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/01/21/mac-mini-for-movies/#comment-909 Ah, thanks for the link. Results look encouraging indeed! Ah, thanks for the link. Results look encouraging indeed!

]]> By: Chris Adams http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/01/21/mac-mini-for-movies/#comment-908 Chris Adams Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:49:51 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2005/01/21/mac-mini-for-movies/#comment-908 A 1GHz G4 with a tuned MPEG-4 codec (3ivx.com rather than Apple/DivX) can almost handle HD playback now (I've done this on my PowerBook - there are only problems in the most complex scenes). If they continue removing QuickTime's legacy cruft (e.g. poorly-tuned scalar colorspace conversion which should have been AltiVec and now can be done entirely on the GPU) it seems quite likely that a MacMini could handle all HD content. There are a number of benchmark results in <a href="http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/312001878631">this recent ArsTechnica forum thread</a> A 1GHz G4 with a tuned MPEG-4 codec (3ivx.com rather than Apple/DivX) can almost handle HD playback now (I’ve done this on my PowerBook - there are only problems in the most complex scenes). If they continue removing QuickTime’s legacy cruft (e.g. poorly-tuned scalar colorspace conversion which should have been AltiVec and now can be done entirely on the GPU) it seems quite likely that a MacMini could handle all HD content.

There are a number of benchmark results in this recent ArsTechnica forum thread

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