hardware

Hello all!

I'm doing an installation where I have to drive a full HD display. I need to play a short loop, and then trigger another loop once in a while (from a sensor). Both loops are short (a few seconds to a minute). Simple stuff, or should be.

The challenge is that I need both HD performance and immediate the ability to switch vids instantly.

From an installation / practical point of view, the Mac Mini looks really tasty. Affordable, small, and quiet. This older Macbook Pro is pretty similar in specs to that one, and I've gotten 1080p to play on this machine without dropping frames as far as I can tell. I've not yet tried the triggering in-depth.

Does anyone out there have a current Mini? How's HD performance?

Or does anyone have other ideas for other soft- / hardware that could do this? Windows or Linux is fine. Or ideas for the most efficient codec to choose?

You may or may not have seen the latest release from Wacom, a consumer-aimed multitouch (ahem, multi=2 tracking points) tablet that works with a pen or two fingers.

http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_pen_touch.php

I'm interested in using it as a test bed for some multi-touch ideas in conjunction with QC, and am wondering if anyone else has tried it yet, and how to go about that.

At a guess, the HID patch would be my first thing to reach for, but I've not been able to get anything useful out of it using an older Wacom, which may be a driver issue.