[mythtv-users] Anybody using 0.24 on a (1st generation) AppleTV or anyone on Mac OS 10.4?

Tue Mar 15 19:05:34 UTC 2011

MacNeal,

Thanks for the reply... so I'm gonna just keep barking up "this-here" tree.
I was following the ATV Bootloader instructions as well.  I've been saving
my notes, in hopes of making at least a mailing list report as to how I got
mine tweaked.  There's all sorts of resources out there and a combination of
about 6 or 7 different sources has netted pretty decent results so far.
Just doesn't seem to be anything real up to date.

I got mildly distracted with the new (to me anyways) 1080i HDTV CRT and
getting decent feed from the appletv to it... but i'll get back into the
swing of things soon.

Thanks again.

God Bless,

Ben T. Eisemann
beisemann at gmail.com

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of
its strength.—Charles Spurgeon

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <dardack at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ben Eisemann <ben at locojeeper.com> wrote:
>
>> MacNean,
>>
>> Are you running the 0.24 frontend on top of the AppleTV OS or on Linux?
>>
>> I've got Mythbuntu running with 0.24 on the AppleTV hardware and it works
>> pretty well.  I only record SD content anyways (was given a 1080i HDTV CRT
>> over the weekend, we'll have to see how that works).
>>
>> If your still running AppleTV OS did you use a pre-compiled binary or did
>> you compile it yourself?
>>
>> I would very much like to run 0.24 frontend on top of the AppleTV OS...
>> at least too see.
>>
>> Not sure about the Crystal HD chip... I'd like to try that.  I think from
>> what I saw you'd need to run linux instead of mac os frontend to take
>> advantage of it though.
>>
>>
>>
> 1. AFAIKnew anyways CrystalHD had drivers in XMBC but not in mythtv.  Why I
> asked before I purchase one.
>
> 2. I got my super cheap like 2 years ago or something.  I put linux on it
> ASAP.  I have a USB boot stick.  I just followed:
> http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/  also the tips and tricks people
> have posted on the discussion boards there, also
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_On_AppleTV_with_Mythbuntu_9.10 has
> some of those tips and tricks.  So no never even ran the AppleTV OS, have no
> need for it.
>
>
>
>> God Bless,
>>
>> Ben T. Eisemann
>> beisemann at gmail.com
>>
>> Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of
>> its strength.—Charles Spurgeon
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <dardack at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Ajay Sharma <ajayrockrock at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > On <3%2F10%2F2011> <3%2F10%2F2011> <3%2F10%2F2011>3/10/2011 18:04,
>>>> Ben Eisemann wrote:
>>>> >> Now comes the MythFrontend install... everything i've been reading
>>>> >> references old versions of MythTV (i.e. 0.21).  Has anyone had
>>>> success
>>>> >> running the 0.24 MythFrontend on the first generation AppleTV's?
>>>>  They
>>>> >> run a variant of Mac OS 10.4... so anybody running that?
>>>> >
>>>> > The first generation AppleTV has a 1GHz Pentium M.  It won't have
>>>> enough
>>>> > power for playback of anything better than standard definition.  If
>>>> you
>>>> > load Linux on instead, you can try using a CrystalHD decoder in place
>>>> of
>>>> > the wireless card.  Beyond that, with only 256MB of memory, depending
>>>> on
>>>> > the display resolution, mythfrontend will likely start swapping and
>>>> may
>>>> > be unusably slow.
>>>>
>>>> I have a 1st gen apple tv but I use it as an XBMC frontend and there
>>>> are addons for mythtv as well.  It's pretty decent with the CrystalHD
>>>> card.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is the CrystalHD card supported in MythTV yet?  And if so how much they
>>> cost?
>>>
>>> BTW I have .24 on my AppleTV.  The menu's are slow but playback is fine
>>> of SD content (mkv files ripped at constant 16, TV shows recorded with
>>> pvr-250/500, etc.).
>>>
>>>
>>> --Ajay
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>>>
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>>>
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