Ipad 2 EyeTV Live Streaming w/ Live TV Plasma Too

[bearcat02]

Hello.

I'm running EyeTV on a 2.26 C2D mac mini (late '09). When trying to stream live TV to a iPad 2 while also watching live TV via the mac on a 720 plasma screen the iPad 2 video drops a lot of frames. Both of the live feeds are HD channels from an antenna using an HDHomeRun.

When this happens, the CPU usage is at 100%. Using just the iPad or mac/TV is fine. Has anyone tried this with a similar mini using a Turbo.264 HD to offload some of the file conversion to reduce the CPU load?

Thanks!

 

[macsrcool1234]

Hello.

I'm running EyeTV on a 2.26 C2D mac mini (late '09). When trying to stream live TV to a iPad 2 while also watching live TV via the mac on a 720 plasma screen the iPad 2 video drops a lot of frames. Both of the live feeds are HD channels from an antenna using an HDHomeRun.

When this happens, the CPU usage is at 100%. Using just the iPad or mac/TV is fine. Has anyone tried this with a similar mini using a Turbo.264 HD to offload some of the file conversion to reduce the CPU load?

Thanks!

Trans-coding the tv to an ipad stream and decoding the homerun signal is a lot to do for a C2D. Maybe there's some way to offload some of that work to the GPU? What kind of video card does that Mac Mini have?