<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Kuphal</b> <<a href="mailto:kuphal@dls.net">kuphal@dls.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Craig Partin wrote:<br>>>>>> That device is very interesting. According to that thread and<br>>>>>> others, it has almost a full blown OSX installation on it. It looks<br>>>>>> like a very promising SD MythTV frontend.
<br>>>>>><br>>>>>><br>>>>> What's more, there's some evidence the box was intentionally designed<br>>>>> to make do-it-yourself projects easy:<br>>>>>
<br>>>>> <URL:<a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473502&postcount=39">http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473502&postcount=39</a>><br>>>>><br>>>>> and the hardware is designed to support
5.1 sound, even if iTunes<br>>>>> doesn't yet:<br>>>>><br>>>>> <URL:<a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473754&postcount=73">http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473754&postcount=73
</a>><br>>>>><br>>>>> Raw technical specs, straight from bash:<br>>>>><br>>>>> <URL:<a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473972&postcount=100">http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473972&postcount=100
</a>><br>>>>><br>>>>> Lots of enthusiasm here:<br>>>>><br>>>>> <URL:<a href="http://www.digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV">http://www.digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV
</a>><br>>>>><br>>>>> --<br>>>>> Yeechang Lee <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</a>> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US<br>>>>><br>>>>>
<br>>>> The two questions now are:<br>>>><br>>>> 1. Can it run the OSX version of mythfrontend?<br>>>> 2. Are the video drivers good enought to allow a 1Gig processor to playback HD.<br>
>>><br>>>><br>>> I doubt it. It doesn't have any MPEG-2 decompression support, only<br>>> H.263 so the 1Ghz processor is unlikely to handle HD that we know it.<br>>><br>>><br>
><br>> I thought H.264 was more cpu intensive to decode. Would they have<br>> optimized GPU assist for this one codec? It's supposed to do 720p out<br>> of the box<br>><br>Given their plans to do H.264
hardware decoding on all their systems,<br>I'd say yes. Since it is the only codec used by iTunes.<br><br><a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070308_001806.html
</a><br><br>Kevin</blockquote><div><br>People on the Digg forums are asking if it would be possible to put a tuner in one of these. I doubt it, but if somebody could get a myth frontend running on one and could put up a video of it changing channels via a myth backend I think it would go a long way to making Myth more popular.
<br><br>Does anybody think Apple will come out with "fixes" in newer models of AppleTVs to make them harder to hack, a la the Wii? Or is it that they don't care? I can't really afford an AppleTV at the moment, but if this turns out to be a great front end, and the next rev is un-hackable, I might have to pick one up now.
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