>I have used a patched appletv as a mythtv frontend (using mythbuntu) >for a few months, for which I am of course grateful to this group for >making such a process relatively painless. I see that it is now >relatively straightforward to install XBMC (and mythbox?) onto the >appletv and run it in on the native OS, which I think would mean that >any hardware compatability issues should pretty much disappear. I was >therefore wondering if anybody had set up an appletv frontend for >mythtv using XBMC+mythbox and if they could comment on its performance >compared to mythfrontend on an appletv with linux, particularly the >responsiveness to channel changing. If anybody could confirm that the >XBMC setup would mean a fully operating HDMI port (for convenience and >connectivity, dont really have any HD videos to be playing), that >would be great as well.
XBMC with a mythtvbackend works great for recorded content. LiveTV is "ok", channel changing is slow but that's really a mythtv issue in general with the mythtv dev feelings about LiveTV :) one thing needed that the docs gloss over is adding the mytvbackend to /etc/host. That's required under XBMC for Mac. Performance in decoding is similar but you will lose 1080i mpeg2 hw decode via XvMC. That does not exist on OSX platforms. The HDMI port is fully operational including audio over HDMI. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
