[mythtv-users] future of the appletv (1g) frontend

Tom Flair lists at graniteskies.net
Sun Jan 30 19:18:24 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:09 PM, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Tom Flair <lists at graniteskies.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:17 PM, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a first-gen appletv frontend (0.23, Mythbuntu 10.04) that I
> >> have been quite happy with.  I can watch SD and HD content recorded
> >> from the HDHR smoothly using XvMC.  However, with XvMC disappearing
> >> from 0.24-fixes, I am wondering what the future of this FE is as I
> >> would like to upgrade my backend and other FE's to 0.24.  There is the
> >> option of installing a Crystal HD card, but I haven't been able to
> >> find any reports of success using that hardware with mythtv (e.g.
> >> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD).
> >>
> >> Wondering what other appletv FE users are doing?
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> > I have a BCM70015 running in a mini-itx build without too many issues.
> > Skipping around successively occasionally causes issues with (I assume)
> > buffering, and I only have to do this when it looks like commercial
> skipping
> > has skipped too far.   Otherwise, it's been working.
> >
> > I'd imagine it should be the same if the card were installed in the
> AppleTV.
> >
> Hi Tom,
> Thanks for the reply.  What version of the FE are you using?  Also,
> did you install the drivers from Jarod Wilson's git page?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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I'm on 0.24 fixes, and yes, I'm using Jarod's git tree to build the module
and drivers.
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