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Mac Mini vs. Media Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ding-ding dept.

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is pitting the new Intel Core Duo Mac Mini against Microsoft Media Center. The first round of the fight concludes: 'The Mac Mini automatically recognised the LCD TV we're using, and the third-party tuner was similarly straightforward to set up. Compared to the hours we've spent coaxing similar results out of a Microsoft Media Center system, the Mini is definitely ahead so far.'"

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  1. Re:So true... by SengirV · · Score: 0, Troll
    Because with a simple Firewire break-out box, that's exactly what a lot of people are using their minis for. Next question.

    Yeah, at 720p. Apple's own site says that the mini is not up to snuff for 1080p - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommenda tions.html

    So in this case, it appears to really be comparing apples to oranges.

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  2. Re:So true... by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why didn't you just download the 3rd-party divx codec for Quicktime?

    Done that. The audio faded in and out. So, I had to use "Divx Doctor". Then my G4 PowerBook was not fast enough to play the movie so I had to transfer it to my G5 to play it.

    VLC? Sure, I have it, it plays more stuff than Quicktime, it doesn't play everything though. Sometimes I have to transcode videos using ffmpeg so that they will play at all. Don't get me started with WMVs.

    Quicktime just sucks. No playlist. Resource hog. Nagware. Few codecs supported. Its amazing that Macs are supposedly into multimedia, but they have no applications that are up to the job.