{"id":168,"date":"2006-01-25T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/dual-500-g4-cant-handle-hdtv\/"},"modified":"2006-01-25T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T03:02:15","slug":"dual-500-g4-cant-handle-hdtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/dual-500-g4-cant-handle-hdtv\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual 500 G4 can&#8217;t handle HDTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching hardware and software for this idea of HDTV through the mac, and thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/broadcastflag\/eyetv500.php\" title=\"review of the Elgato EyeTV 500\">review of the Elgato EyeTV 500<\/a> by the EFF, I fired up my favorite BitTorrent client to receive a five-minute clip of Fellowship of the Rings that they recorded in HD from the WB, may it rest in peace. <\/p>\n<p>There is no way this machine, a dual 500 G4 which was brand new in early 2001, has the guts to play back HDTV streams with high quality. I don&#8217;t own the EyeTV software so I didn&#8217;t try that, but EVERYONE has VLC, right? So I tried that. It&#8217;ll play, the video and audio stay synchronized, and it even looks pretty good during relatively static scenes, but throw in some action or even a quick pan, and the picture gets quite blocky.<\/p>\n<p>After also trying MPlayerOSX to watch the same clip, I&#8217;m impressed by how gracefully VLC&#8217;s performance degrades: MPlayer lets both the audio and the video get choppy; it was basically un-watchable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching hardware and software for this idea of HDTV through the mac, and thanks to a review of the Elgato EyeTV 500 by the EFF, I fired up my favorite BitTorrent client to receive a five-minute clip of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/dual-500-g4-cant-handle-hdtv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}