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heydn3
May 3rd, 2010, 09:29 AM
I know I'm kind of beating a dead horse here -- but I'm surprised, with Apple's recent announcement, that know one has commented here on this... Plex, another great media server product, as of last week was the first one out of the gate with native 1080p mkv / mp4 H.264 acceleration on 9400M nVidia macs (and it works amazingly well) -- with adobe's Flash software following suit. So I wonder how long we will have to wait until the Boxee dev team acknowledges this and gets working on it...maybe they already are?? Go Boxee!! :)
agentlame
May 3rd, 2010, 09:35 AM
The difference between Plex and Boxee is that Boxee works with XBMC upstream.

Sometimes core player features are add by XBMC--VDPAU on Linux--and sometimes by Boxee--DXVA on Windows.

Likely, the two teams are working out who will implement h.264 acceleration on Mac. It will come in due time, and likely to both applications around the same time.
medicineuk
May 3rd, 2010, 10:38 AM
XBMC already has it http://xbmc.org/davilla/2010/05/03/osx-gets-h-264-accelleration/
agentlame
May 3rd, 2010, 10:46 AM
XBMC already has it http://xbmc.org/davilla/2010/05/03/osx-gets-h-264-accelleration/

Well, there you have it. You can expect to see it a future build of Boxee.
davilla
May 3rd, 2010, 11:41 AM
/me strikes again :) And we (XBMC) have working h264 in a m2ts container playback where Plex does not, Bruhahahahaha.
agentlame
May 3rd, 2010, 12:03 PM
/me strikes again :) And we (XBMC) have working h264 in a m2ts container playback where Plex does not, Bruhahahahaha.

As always, you sir are the man. On behalf of the Boxee community, I thank you guys (Team-XBMC) for being epic. :D
espensgr
May 4th, 2010, 04:41 AM
damn i have been waiting for this a long time now.
Looking forward too it!
whodean
May 17th, 2010, 09:02 AM
Hardware H.264 would be great, any timeframe?
mlb5000
June 19th, 2010, 06:09 PM
Any update on this? 1080p VC-1 plays perfectly but Boxee often has trouble viewing the 1080p H.264 titles, particularly when they're being streamed across the network.
whodean
August 11th, 2010, 05:21 PM
I'm anxiously awaiting an update too.
CrazyJAT
November 29th, 2010, 11:51 PM
/me strikes again :) And we (XBMC) have working h264 in a m2ts container playback where Plex does not, Bruhahahahaha.

I have Boxee Beta 0.9.23.15885 running on Snow Leopard with no hardware acceleration with my 1080p h.264 m2ts file. Plex however, plays the file back with full hardware acceleration. So does VLC.

Why don't I get HW acceleration in Boxee? It is enabled in the settings.