I am currently thinking to use my Mac Mini PPC as a media center under MorphOS. I currently have not got a lot of movies to test but I tried a DivX movie (DVD Rip 745MB) and played great via Mplayer. The sames goes for a HD movie (about 2.5 giga length again in DivX format). To my surprise it played very well, no crashes, lags and similar stuff!

I remember that I always have issues on my PPC Macs to play HD movies under Mac OSX! But at least with the one movie I tried, everything went well under MorphOS!

So I want a little confirmation in this especially from people who have tried and tested the Mini as a movie player under MorphOS:

Would MorphOS and Mplayer play well 720p and 1080p HD stuff, in divx and .mkv file formats?

Are there any confirmed usb wireless or blue tooth keyboard / mouse devices to work under MorphOS after all?

Thanks a lot!!!!

[ Edited by CountRaven 09.07.2013 - 02:32 ]

No the mini cannot play 1080. Even the faster PowerBooks cannot.For 720P it depends on the compression used, so basically no.

Better get an 40 Euro Raspberry pi for that.

Geit


[ Edited by geit 19.01.2013 - 20:08 ]

> Are there any confirmed usb wireless or blue tooth keyboard / mouse devices
> to work under MorphOS after all?

Working USB cordless keyboard/mouse combo solutions are plentiful. I use this:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6945&forum=11&start=16

Regarding Bluetooth, refer to:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7238&forum=11

What about an overclocked PowerMac MDD @ 1.42Ghz with 2giga RAM (under MorphOS), any luck in there?

Note: Hmm do not know perhaps the files I checked with was not real HD movies although the second DivX was a huge one 2 giga file. But both the files I tested were playing smoothly.

[ Edited by CountRaven 09.07.2013 - 02:34 ]

The size of memory has no effect on the performance when using MorphOS.

Also when a PowerBook with 1.67 Ghz is not able, I doubt you can overclock a standard powermac.

Best is to wait for G5 support and buy a 2.7Ghz PowerMac instead. There 720P videos are working for sure.

Geit

[ Edited by geit 20.01.2013 - 00:11 ]

Hmmm correct me if I am wrong I think PPC chips used on Powermacs have better performance than those on Powerbooks and I think that Powermacs have better performance in generl (faster bus speed etc). Anyway the original option was the mac mini since I could not put any kind of Powermac on the living room.....

Speaking about g5, well I would go for a quad core one (not only gor Morphos use) but i have not found a real cheap one (still)..... Wonder if the quad g5 are actually cheap after all, have not made a focused search yet.

[ Edited by CountRaven 09.07.2013 - 02:35 ]

The quadcore is not the fastest G5, when it comes to speed per core, as its RAM speed is much lower, so even when clocked the same a single core is slower on a quad system than on a dual system.

The best MorphOS System is the 2.7 Ghz G5 Dual.

Geit


[ Edited by geit 20.01.2013 - 00:46 ]

> buy a 2.7Ghz PowerMac instead. There 720P videos are working for sure.

...as well as 1080p videos :-)

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=7372&start=19

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=7579&start=75

> correct me if I am wrong I think PPC chips used on Powermacs have better performance
> than those on Powerbooks

PowerMac G4 with original CPU has up to 1.42 GHz with L3 cache. PowerBook G4 has up to 1.67 GHz without L3 cache. Whether the L3 cache really makes up for the missing 250 MHz when it comes to playing videos I don't know.

> I think that Powermacs have beeter performsnce in generl (faster bus dpeed etc).

FSB speed is 167 MHz max for both PowerMac G4 and PowerBook G4.

@countraven

Most usual H.264 720p files run at full speed, at least when disabling loopfilter. Files with higher bitrates might be a bit too slow, though.

Geit: sure you can overclock PowerMac - I've reached 1.83Ghz at some stage but not stable at all.

About G5 - quad core model (Late 2005) won't be supported as there is a PCI-E. But you are wrong about the
ram - quad core has DDR 2.