[mythtv-users] Apple TV hacked to use other codecs

[Matt Emmott]

On 3/24/07, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> Craig Partin wrote:
> >>>>> That device is very interesting.  According to that thread and
> >>>>> others, it has almost a full blown OSX installation on it.  It looks
> >>>>> like a very promising SD MythTV frontend.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> What's more, there's some evidence the box was intentionally designed
> >>>> to make do-it-yourself projects easy:
> >>>>
> >>>> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473502&postcount=39>
> >>>>
> >>>> and the hardware is designed to support 5.1 sound, even if iTunes
> >>>> doesn't yet:
> >>>>
> >>>> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473754&postcount=73>
> >>>>
> >>>> Raw technical specs, straight from bash:
> >>>>
> >>>> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473972&postcount=100
> >
> >>>>
> >>>> Lots of enthusiasm here:
> >>>>
> >>>> <URL:http://www.digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> The two questions now are:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Can it run the OSX version of mythfrontend?
> >>> 2.  Are the video drivers good enought to allow a 1Gig processor to
> playback HD.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I doubt it.  It doesn't have any MPEG-2 decompression support, only
> >> H.263 so the 1Ghz processor is unlikely to handle HD that we know it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I thought H.264 was more cpu intensive to decode.  Would they have
> > optimized GPU assist for this one codec?  It's supposed to do 720p out
> > of the box
> >
> Given their plans to do H.264 hardware decoding on all their systems,
> I'd say yes.   Since it is the only codec used by iTunes.
>
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html
>
> Kevin


People on the Digg forums are asking if it would be possible to put a tuner
in one of these. I doubt it, but if somebody could get a myth frontend
running on one and could put up a video of it changing channels via a myth
backend I think it would go a long way to making Myth more popular.

Does anybody think Apple will come out with "fixes" in newer models of
AppleTVs to make them harder to hack, a la the Wii? Or is it that they don't
care? I can't really afford an AppleTV at the moment, but if this turns out
to be a great front end, and the next rev is un-hackable, I might have to
pick one up now.
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