[mythtv-users] Apple iTV - MythTV Frontend?
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Wed Jan 10 05:02:37 UTC 2007
Chris Ribe wrote:
>
>
> On 1/9/07, *Kevin Kuphal* <kuphal at dls.net <mailto:kuphal at dls.net>> wrote:
>
> Kevin Hulse wrote:
> > I have 2.5TB of unemcumbered content and a GigE wired
> > network. So neither of those Apple straightjacket-ware
> > features are of much interest to me.
> >
> >
> And you can import that into the AppleTV and play them nicely.
>
>
> You had better start transcoding now, though, because all of that
> unencumbered content needs to be transcoded to an h.264 flavor that
> the decoder in the Apple TV can handle.
>
> Assuming that is 2.5TB of 2mbps mpeg4 content, your MacBook Pro should
> finish transcoding sometime around Halloween.
>
> Don't have an intel mac already? Good luck finding non- OS X software
> to transcode into one of those Apple TV formats.
>
I noticed that also. No MPEG-2 support at all. Kinda makes it just
about useless in Myth terms...
Kevin
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