Re: [vdr] Mac mini + Xine plugin = perfect vdr client?

Hi,

Carsten Koch wrote:

IMHO the Mac mini is an excellent machine for the living room.

• It is so silent you can hardly hear it.
• It looks good and does not take up a lot of space.
• It has a built-in DVD ROM.
• It runs 2 UNIXes - MacOS X and Linux.
• It has a DVI output which provides perfect picture quality with a DLP beamer or a flat panel display.

So I am thinking of using one instead of my current diskless VDR client (an MSI hetis barebone).

Of course the Mac mini does not have a PCI slot, so I will not be able to put in a DVB card.

Would the Xine plugin be a good solution for such a system? Has anyone tried it on a Mac running Linux?

I bcc this message to Carsten Rietzschel. He has contacted me for OSD color issues which will be fixed in vdr-xine-0.7.5. Maybe he can tell us his experience with vdr-xine and Mac mini ;-)

Bye.