Wow, I am surprised! I figured the atv os would be a better choice because it is built for the hardware. Glad I asked. Guess I will stick with my current setup. I already have ubuntu installed and working. I just recently figured out how to get the mythbackend tuners to show up in boxee. So I thought maybe the atv was a good choice. Thank you all for the answers. Until atv os is more capable, I will stick with ubuntu.
On Aug 16, 4:32 pm, Will Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to watch HD TV on the ATV you will need Linux. The CPU in > the Apple TV is not powerful enough to decode HD TV on its own. Linux > allows you to offload some of the work decoding the HD stream to the > nVidia GPU using a technology called XVMC. As Phil stated below, it > works beautifully. > > Boxee doesn't support XVMC, nor does the ATV OS (a watered down > version of OS X). > > I recommend going with Mythbuntu. It's a ton of work but that's half > the fun, right? > > -Will > > On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Phil Chadwick wrote: > > > > > The ATV OS doesn't play normal HD movies, but a crippled version > > sent via iTunes (lowered FPS). > > > when I was contemplating the same thing, I decided to go mythtv on > > the ATV as it supports XVMC- the ability to offload mpeg2 decoding > > to the Nvidia graphics card. I don't believe the native Apple TV OS > > does this. > > > I can play 1080i mpeg2 shows (Captured via HDHR) perfectly on the > > ATV w/ Mythtv and XVMC. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: iitywygms <[email protected]> > > To: atv-bootloader <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:07:50 PM > > Subject: [atv-bootloader] would you run boxee on ubuntu, or native > > atv os? > > > So I have a choice to make. > > I want to use the atv as a media center frontend. I have a mythtv > > backend that has movies, videos, etc. > > What would be a better frontend for this? Considering all I want to > > do is watch recorded tv and movies, plus listen to music and watch > > hulu. > > I do not need to schedule shows or anything like that. > > I THINK I should run the standard atv os, and install boxee to watch > > the recorded tv shows from the myth backend and hulu > > OR, I could install ubuntu and mythfrontend. But I think the atv os > > will be better at watching most hd movies because atv os is designed > > specifically for the hardware on the apple tv box. > > What would you do? Keep the atv os and use boxee, or install ubuntu > > and mythtv and boxee? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
