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

Tue Mar 15 20:58:13 UTC 2011

MacNean,

Fortunately my inherited CRT HDTV only supports video over HDMI and has a
seperately defined and accessible set of RCA jacks for audio input.  I was
surprised that the AppleTV hardware survived a full on package update using
PPA 0.24 fixes.  Didn't have to "fix" a thing...

still have a bunch of tweaking to do, but over all I am quite pleased.

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 3:56 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <dardack at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ben Eisemann <ben at locojeeper.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> The only thing i really don't like is no sound through the HDMI.  Doubt
> that will ever be fixed tbh.  Yea took me a couple hours to get it all set.
>  And now I just update/upgrade it.  (mythbuntu).  That does take awhile at
> times.
>
> 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%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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> MacNean C. Tyrrell
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