Re: best HD media player to replace xbmc

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've managed to get my HTPC (Core2Duo @ 2.13Ghz) down to 1% CPU when
playing back BluRay and HDDVD, with the audio going straight out via
spdif.  With the CPU doing the audio decoding, it jumps up to 30%.
Presumably h264 decoding is done by my graphics card, but it sounds like
the mini has to do that on the CPU as well.



Mark McCall wrote:
>
> > Turns out I was thinking of the AppleTV, rather than Mac Mini.
:-(
>
> Yeah, AppleTV won't do 1080P. Mac mini will. I've posted this link a
few
> time now but it's worth a read...
>
> http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2008/03/high-definition.html
> <http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2008/03/high-definition.html>
>
> M.
>
>


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