New Mac Mini has 9400M !!!!!

[davilla]

a) Someone familiar with the frontrow class methods would have to spend the time doing the programming and testing. That person would also need to be familiar with the internal structure of Boxee to merge this with Boxee source code and make sure it does not cause problems with the other platforms.

b) Only quicktime compatible video content would work, that means forget about MKVs.

c) It would only work under the appletv.

In other words, developer resources are not unlimited and it's not as simple of just changing a few lines of code.

[Carniphage]

a) Someone familiar with the frontrow class methods would have to spend the time doing the programming and testing. That person would also need to be familiar with the internal structure of Boxee to merge this with Boxee source code and make sure it does not cause problems with the other platforms.

As I remember ATVFile was written in days.

b) Only quicktime compatible video content would work, that means forget about MKVs.

But we have *already* forgotten about MKVs. All 720p content is unreliable. It would be good to have one format that worked properly.

What I am proposing is a tick-box option that says "Play supported formats through Quicktime". This tick box would only appear on Apple platforms. On Apple TV this would play through FrontRow - on Mac this would play through Quicktime Player - and would then allow both to benefit from the hardware acceleration.

I'd argue that the quality media playback is at the very heart of a media player. If you deliver anything less than the hardware is capable of, you are at risk of alienating your most enthusiastic users.

C.