Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] AppleTV issues

[Scott D. D. <da...@4p...>]

>  > the AppleTV platform as sufficient power to decode 1080i with 30
>>  percent idle left over.
>
>What codec was used for the video? MPEG2 or MPEG4/H.264?

The Linux based nvidia private driver only hardware decodes MPEG2. 
The native AppleTV OSX driver hardware decodes MPEG4/H.264 but not 
MPEG2. It's a mystery under OSX why Apple does not permit MPEG2 
hardware decode  except through their DVD player application.

So under Linux you can do MPEG2 decode of HD content unless nvidia 
decides that MPEG4/H.264 under linux is worth their time.

Scott