[mythtv-users] Apple TV as frontend - but I don't have any widescreen yet

[jedi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:29:23AM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:12 AM, jedi wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:54:59AM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >> I've recently been recording with 2 HD-PVR's. In the process, I found
> >> that I could not play back 720p content with my frontend until I
> >> compiled from trunk and now I can play back quite nicely. For  
> >> kicks, I
> >> copied over one of my files to the AppleTV running current-fixes
> >> mythbuntu and it *nearly* played back - meaning that video played  
> >> back
> >> smoothly and audio played back smoothly, but out of sync with each
> >> other. When I find the time, I'm going to reformat the AppleTV,
> >> install with ubuntu and compile a trunk frontend which, by all
> >> indications, will play back 720p content ok.
> >>
> >> If someone happens to know of a public repository for running a  
> >> recent
> >> trunk frontend under mythbuntu, I could test this much quicker and  
> >> get
> >> a definitive answer.
> >
> > Don't be a wimp. Just check out the source and build it.
> 
> >
> >
> > I'm running trunk (everywhere).
> 
> 
> I'm not afraid of compiling myself or running trunk. If you read my  
> post, you'll see that I already am. The problem is finding the time to  
> reformat and reinstall my AppleTV box. I can't seem to get trunk going  

     I guess my internal "commercial skip" filtered it out. It still
doesn't make any sense. If you can't figure something out under the
Ubuntu variant you already have installed, what makes you think burning
it down and rebuilding it is going to help?

> under mythbuntu, so I need to install ubuntu from scratch to do it.  
> This is a huge time investment that I can't make right now. So in  
> response to "don't be a wimp", I say, "Don't be such an ass."