[mythtv-users] FE/BE on AppleTV

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:21 PM, david.w.smiley at gmail.com
<david.w.smiley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks.
> I bought an AppleTV with the intention of using it for MythTV (and
> Boxee), though I've been charmed by the native capabilities of the
> devise, so I'm not loving the idea of replacing it with a linux
> distro.  There's a lot of information out there, some of it fairly
> dated and I'm not sure what the current state of the art is.  Is
> anyone here using AppleTV OS with a Mac compiled MythTV front-end?  If
> so, what instructions do you suggest I follow?  Do I have to use some
> old mythtv version or would the latest work?  And secondly, I'm
> interested in running a backend on this machine getting HD shows from
> an HDHomeRun.  Yes I know the hardware is far from ideal... but
> nonetheless, is anyone running a backend on the AppleTV's native OS?
> If not then is anyone doing it on Mac OS X, suggesting it *might* work
> on the Apple TV -- which I here is an OS 10.4 variant?  And as I asked
> for the frontend, what instruction set out there describes the process
> and must I use a particular old mythtv version?

Most of your answers are over here:

http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com