On 5/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Raymond</b> <<a href="mailto:neil_raymond@hotmail.com">neil_raymond@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry, this started off on the dev list as it was a dev question, should<br>probably be on users now.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Neil<br><br><br>>From: "Neil Raymond" <<a href="mailto:neil_raymond@hotmail.com">
neil_raymond@hotmail.com</a>><br>>Reply-To: Development of mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-dev@mythtv.org">mythtv-dev@mythtv.org</a>><br>>To: <a href="mailto:mythtv-dev@mythtv.org">mythtv-dev@mythtv.org</a><br>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv] [OS X] Running mythfrontend on apple tv - working<br>>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 08:58:14 +0100<br>><br>>Hi Todd<br>><br>>Thanks for the reply.<br>><br>>I've actually got it working quite well now, the previous reply from James
<br>>Mulcahy pointed me in the right direction. I had a look at the fonts<br>>installed on the AppleTV and compared them to those on my Macbook, and<br>>there<br>>were a whole load more on the Macbook (unsurprisingly). I backed up the
<br>>font<br>>directories on the AppleTV and then copied all the fonts from my Macbook<br>>over to the AppleTV. I repeated this for the 3 main font directories<br>>(/System/Library/Fonts, /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts). It probably
<br>>wasn't necessary to do all 3 locations, at some point I'll go back and work<br>>out exactly what is and isn't needed.<br>><br>>I then killed the Finder by disabling the watchdog and renaming Finder.app
,<br>>and ran MythFrontend from the ssh session. All seems to be well - I can<br>>watch live tv, watch recording etc.<br>><br>>It plays SD material fine, I'm connecting to a backend that's recording<br>
>DVB-T broadcasts. I don't have access to any any HD material other than the<br>>BBC HD trial that is running at the moment, but that's broadcast in<br>>H.264/MPEG4 AVC and there's no way the AppleTV could decode it. If someone
<br>>could point me to some HD trailers that can be legally downloaded I could<br>>give some feedback on HD capabilities.<br>><br>>The only problem that I've got now is some slight overscan. I'm using the
<br>>HDMI connection at 720p resolution, but for some reason the myth display<br>>still extends off the side of the screen. I'm hoping that manually setting<br>>the display size in the setup will fix this.<br>
><br>>Other than that it's quite usable. It takes 3 or 4 seconds to begin<br>>playback<br>>of a recording, but once it's playing it's fine. Skipping forward/backward<br>>takes <1s. My backend is running on fairly low powered hardware (VIA EPIA
<br>>EN12000G) so that might not be helping. The only other niggle is the lack<br>>of<br>>buttons on the remote, but there's nothing I can do about that.<br>><br>>I hope this helps someone, I can post all the steps I took to get it
<br>>working<br>>if anyone shows interest.<br>><br>>Cheers<br>><br>>Neil</blockquote><div><br> </div>I would love a howto. ;0><br></div>
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TK