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

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Sun Mar 25 15:32:01 UTC 2007


Craig Partin wrote:
(...)
>> With hardware accelerated H.264 playback, it makes perfect sense.  They
>> don't need CPU to do it when it is all done in hardware.  This is just
>> like my Athlon 1800 on Windows combined with Nvidia's PureVideo DVD
>> software can do perfect HD playback but without it just falls on it's face.
> 
> But it has a general purpose GPU, not a dedicated H.264 decoder.  The
> parent seems to indicate that it can only do 720p24

So we need a hardware tweak to add some speed?
Can we overclock it? Change the CPU?


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