Does windows run smooth in parallels under OSX?

[alm99]

I have one application that I run under windows on my mac mini, snapstream beyond tv.

I have looked at elgato eyetv and it stinks comapred to beyond tv. Is parallels smooth enough to run the program? Can parallels also work full screen?

 

[TheStu]

Yes and Yes

 

[Illusio]

Originally posted by: TheStu
Yes and Yes

Seconded.

 

[rikadik]

Originally posted by: Dark Jedi

Originally posted by: TheStu
Yes and Yes

Seconded.

Thirded (?)

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: rikadik

Originally posted by: Dark Jedi

Originally posted by: TheStu
Yes and Yes

Seconded.

Thirded (?)

Quadrupled.

 

[randomlinh]

Both VMWare and Parallels have trials don't they? Give it a shot and see how well it works for you.

 

[Chapbass]

gogo beyond tv! what a great program.

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: Chapbass
gogo beyond tv! what a great program.

Yeah its the only reason I am still running windows. I so wish they would develop for mac.

 

[dnuggett]

Is your hardware robust enough to handle it?

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: dnuggett
Is your hardware robust enough to handle it?

Its a mac mini either 1.66 or 1.83 c2d, 2gb.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: alm99

Originally posted by: dnuggett
Is your hardware robust enough to handle it?

Its a mac mini either 1.66 or 1.83 c2d, 2gb.

BeyondTV runs horribly without good video acceleration unless you just use the overlay functionality, and odds are the intel 945 in the mini won't pull off the overlay that well either.


<----uses xp/vista VMs in Vmware fusion for some electrical simulators.

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: alm99

Originally posted by: dnuggett
Is your hardware robust enough to handle it?

Its a mac mini either 1.66 or 1.83 c2d, 2gb.

BeyondTV runs horribly without good video acceleration unless you just use the overlay functionality, and odds are the intel 945 in the mini won't pull off the overlay that well either.


<----uses xp/vista VMs in Vmware fusion for some electrical simulators.

just installed and its extremely choppy.

 

[bearxor]

Yeah I was going to chime in on this thread after Stu did, but figured he didn't want me disagreeing with him. I've not had any luck viewing tv recordings in either XP MCE 2005 or Vista through either partallels or VMWare, even with DX acceleration turned on and the video memory ramped up. Video in general, with the exception of flash in a browser or something) is and has always been choppy in Parallels or Fusion.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: bearxor
Yeah I was going to chime in on this thread after Stu did, but figured he didn't want me disagreeing with him. I've not had any luck viewing tv recordings in either XP MCE 2005 or Vista through either partallels or VMWare, even with DX acceleration turned on and the video memory ramped up. Video in general, with the exception of flash in a browser or something) is and has always been choppy in Parallels or Fusion.

I wonder how Netflix streams their videos then, because that was one reason why I kept a Windows VM for so long, Netflix streaming movies.

 

[bearxor]

It's not really that the video can't play smoothly. It can. The problem comes in with parallels/fusion screen refresh. If I full-screen parallels, it plays fine, but if i do it in coherence, the screen can't redraw fast enough resulting in what looks like choppy video. Considering that running the VM full-screen is kind of anti-productive to what I want to use something like par/fus for, and probably anti-productive for what the OP wants it for, it's just not a useful solution.

EDIT: But VLC plays DVR-MS files over the network just fine!