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i just picked up the new mac mini from best buy today as my basement flooded saturday and my HTPC was shot. so far i've had no issues, but until i fully configure everything i won't know for sure. i have 45 days to return it though, as i originally wanted to order the core i7 from apple, as best buy only sells the 2 base models, i did get the $799 one though with the ati radeon card and core i5
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ix400 Wrote:But as far as I have understood hardware decoding is not supported on the 2011 Mac Minis.
Or am I wrong?
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Sounds wrong to me unless they changed the hardware decoding APIs (either the private ones or the public ones).
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Tested yet another clip on both the macmini 2010 with nvidia and the macmini 2011 with intel. The clip was a bluray remux of U2's Rose Bowl concert. On the macmini 2010 it ran at 49% CPU / 30fps (with 0 dropped frames) and on the macmini 2011 it was 111% CPU / 15fps and constant dropped frames.
Again these are my own tests and observations but something must be off between the new models and xbmc.
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I have the Mac Mini 2011 with AMD HD 6630M. I have a few 1080p movies with hardware decoding turn on they display weird graphical glitches all over the place like a fried graphics card. This only happens on 1080p anything 720p plays fine. If i turn off the hardware decoder all 1080p plays fine.
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Yet another observation - take a 1080i transport clip and turn on deinterlace. CPU shoots up to 123% constant on the Mac mini 2011. Take the exact same clips (tried 3 different HD Getaways clips and the Last Shuttle Our Journey clip) and the Mac mini 2010 barely cracks 65% CPU and no dropped frames.