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?
TIA for any info,
Carsten.
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?
TIA for any info,
Sounds like a great idea! Found this with some googling http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-madmac1/?ca=dgr-lnxw0...
BR /t
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.
Hello,
I'm using the MacMini as my VDR since a few weeks :)
configuration: - of course the MacMini - Cinergy T2 (DVB-T) - ATI remote wonder - gentoo linux with vdr 1.3.24 - xine-plugin (thanks Reinhard for OSD fix :)
And it works very well! No big problems so far, except one: TV-Out doesn't work yet for me. I've tried using gatos.sf.net-drivers from Rune Petersen - but no luck yet. Maybe someone can help!!?!?
Some minor problems still must be solved: - DVD playback is sometimes choppy - Mplayer plugin (using /usr/bin/xineplayer) doesn't work How does xineplayer work? I think it sends a command to xine to play the selected file, doesn't it? Would be also possible to play a DVD via xineplayer? How can I debug xineplayer?
Please share your experiences too :)
Regards Carsten
Am 10.08.2005 um 21:20 schrieb Reinhard Nissl:
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.
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de
Hi,
Carsten Rietzschel wrote:
How does xineplayer work? I think it sends a command to xine to play the selected file, doesn't it? Would be also possible to play a DVD via xineplayer?
Well, xineplayer tells vdr-xine that input_vdr in xine shall play a further MRL. In that way, OSD and keystrokes still go to vdr-xine via the original vdr:// MRL.
The drawback is that you cannot control the new MRL by means of xine-ui. And as xineplayer currently only support the TRADITIONAL mode of mplayer plugin, you can only play the stream from the beginning and abort it at any time.
xineplayer relies on the mplayer plugin to put vdr-xine into playmode EXTERNAL before it is called. Otherwise, vdr-xine will report
vdr-xine: external commands not allowed!
Besides that, something like
xineplayer dvd://
should do the trick.
How can I debug xineplayer?
Depends on what you want to debug. Maybe it's enough to use printf debugging ;-)
Bye.
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