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Post #29 by moonmonkey
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateFri, 14 Oct 2005 - 01:10
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20051028005923/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=272533
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Originally Posted by tooki
h.264 really does tax a single G4. Try scaling it up to fill the screen -- it gets choppy.

But FrontRow also uses other effects, some of which clearly rely on CoreVideo/CoreImage. Until the Mac mini gets a major GPU upgrade, it won't be suitable, unless Apple tones down the effects.

tooki


Are you sure they are coreimage effets? it just looks like 4 objects rotaing/scaling with reflections. Coverflow does much more than that and works fantasticly on my Mini.

http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/HomePage.html
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