What do you make of this? Looks like this could be the 1080p machine to get…
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Apple-Mac-Mini-2-33Ghz-…1QQcmdZViewItem
I have an equal spec'd mini. I upgraded to a 2.33ghz T7600 and 2gb ram.
On 1080p files I'm pushing near 100% CPU, but rarely do I have any dropped frames.
I can run some tests if you like, or if you have sample files you would like me to run.
What file format 1080p? If you're viewing something highly compressed that wouldn't surprise me. My Mac mini is one of the older ones and does 1080p fine with 1gb ram. I think it's really just a matter of tuning and having a drive that can handle the throughput.
I play 1080p stuff over an SMB or AFP share to eliminate the local disk io issues and that does a pretty good job for me.
On dual cores, 100% really only means 50%, or 100% of one core. I've seen my MBP peak at 125% or so on some real high bitrate 1080p MKVs.
I didn't even know it was possible to upgrade the CPU.
I just sold my 17" 2.33Ghz MBP yesterday and I would really like to replace it with a mini. I couldn't justify the MBP for a media center and occasional mobility. I thought I would need it more on the road for work and found that I could live without it. But it did a great job with Plex and any content I fed it.
I may even see if I can get my iMac back in the same room as my plasma.
You can totally upgrade the intel minis. There are walk-through all over the web.
I was going to do it myself but when I saw how much it would cost it made more sense to sell the old mini and buy one already upgraded.
I’ve got a 2.0GHz Mini w/ 4GB
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a 2.33GHz Mini w/ 4GB on ram. There is QUITE a noticeable difference, eps on 1080p material that needs loads of processor headroom.
2.33GHz is the way to go if you have a large varied collection of 1080p material. Otherwise 2.0GHz is fine in many cases.
You know, I'm pretty close to making the assertion that there isn't really any problem with processor speed.
My current situation is this, I've got some mpeg transport streams that I've ripped to the hard drive. I play it in Plex and the audio lags pretty far behind (seconds), video is quite jerky. But the telling part is looking at the load, only 14%, so it's not that it's lagging. I can load the same file in VLC and it has a little burp starting up, but it kicks in and everything is synced up.
After looking a bit at the code I'm kind of suspecting that CDVDPlayerVideo.cpp or CDVDVideoCodecLibMpeg2 has some bug in it.
Damn. I hate to say it but XBMC Atlantis doesn't have the same problem.
Fixed in the next release, it was a silly regression 
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