[mythtv] mythfrontend on apple tv

[Angel Li]

On 3/27/07, Todd Ignasiak <ignasiak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/27/07, Angel Li <angel.li4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I build mythfrontend from the latest svn and copied it to my Apple TV
> box
> > but I got a bus error after the frontend connected to the backend. I
> assumed
> > that it was due to SS3 instructions in the executable so I dumbed down
> the
> > build on my MacBook Pro by using --mtune=pentium-m but still got a bus
> > error. Don't have much time to debug this and there are no debugging
> tools
> > on the Apple TV box. Should I try different compiler options?
>
> Hi Angel,
>
> You could try the "--disable-mmx" configure option.   That could at
> least show you if it was in fact the vector operations causing the
> problem, rather than something in the Qt code or MySQL, etc..
>
> Please keep us updated on your results.  I've been considering picking
> up one of those boxes, but I'm assuming it can't do HD MPEG2, so I'm
> hesitant.
>
> Have you done any other testing, such as playback of 720p MPEG2 with VLC?


"--disable-mmx"  fails the same way.

I haven't done much playing except iTunes music with the Apple TV box but
it's on my list of things to do.

Angel
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