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RE: Mac Mini v Popcorn Hour A110



> > One thing I *HAVE* noticed with Plex is that the DVD decoding
isn't
> > good -
> > not by any means - I see lots of occurrences of random coloured
> blocks
> > appearing in movies - absolutely repeatable in that I can see it
> > happen,
> > skip back and it happens at the same point again, watch the same
> movie
> > again at a later date and it still happens at exactly the same
point.
>
> That's why I waited for the new Mini as it's got a much better GPU in
> it and it is comparable to a "reasonable" DVD player for the
most part
> but yes, I've seen the glitching as well although it isn't a serious
> problem, or hasn't been yet.

Thing is that as far as I understand Plex isn't actually using any of the
GPUs hardware decoding capabilities - it's all being handled in software.

Phil



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