Hello, This thread has a strong interest for me, but I have no need for HD at this time. All my recording are standard def. I have an ATV that I want to keep the factory OS on, but have hacked it for Boxee and XBMC. Up to now I've been trying to use XBMC for watching myth recordings and it works, but it very acqward and crashes fairly regular. The remote usage is not intuative and would cause major WAF issues!
I wasn't aware up to now that Boxee was an option as well. I'll be testing this tonight for sure. If there has been any further development on myth viewing on alongside the standard ATV OS I would love to hear the best option of the day. Thank you, Scott On Aug 17, 12:59 pm, Will Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately I don't think Boxee will ever be able to play HDTV > content on the AppleTV - even in Linux. Here's the breakdown: > > - Boxee doesn't support XVMC and I doubt it ever will. XVMC is "old" > technology. It is not supported on the newer nVidia chips. > - The newest technology for offloading video decoding to the GPU is > called VDPAU. > - Boxee recently added support for VDPAU, but... > - VDPAU is only supported on the newer nVidia chips. nVidia has no > plans to back-port support for VDPAU to older chips such as the 7000 > series used in the Apple TV. I think this is due to limitations in the > capabilities of the older GPUs. > > I tried playing HDTV content in Boxee a while ago and found the CPU in > the AppleTV just doesn't have enough horsepower to pull it of. > > On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:43 AM, iitywygms wrote: > > > > > > > It currently works partially, at least for me. > > Playing back hdtv channels is iffy. Which is why I asked this > > question on this forum. > > >http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=9951 > > > On Aug 16, 10:22 pm, Will Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I thoughtMythTVintegration in Boxee wasn't working any more. How do > >> you get the Mythbackend tuners to show up? Are you able to play HDTV > >> content in Boxee? > > >> On Aug 17, 2009, at 12:51 AM, iitywygms wrote: > > >>> 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 gomythtvon > >>>>> 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/Mythtvand 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 amythtv > >>>>> 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 > >>>>> andmythtvand boxee?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
