[mythtv-users] Apple TV hacked to use other codecs

[Kevin Kuphal]

Craig Partin wrote:
>> Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> says:
>>     
>>> That device is very interesting.  According to that thread and
>>> others, it has almost a full blown OSX installation on it.  It looks
>>> like a very promising SD MythTV frontend.
>>>       
>> What's more, there's some evidence the box was intentionally designed
>> to make do-it-yourself projects easy:
>>
>> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473502&postcount=39>
>>
>> and the hardware is designed to support 5.1 sound, even if iTunes
>> doesn't yet:
>>
>> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473754&postcount=73>
>>
>> Raw technical specs, straight from bash:
>>
>> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473972&postcount=100>
>>
>> Lots of enthusiasm here:
>>
>> <URL:http://www.digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV>
>>
>> --
>> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US
>>     
>
>
> The two questions now are:
>
> 1. Can it run the OSX version of mythfrontend?
> 2.  Are the video drivers good enought to allow a 1Gig processor to playback HD.
>   
I doubt it.  It doesn't have any MPEG-2 decompression support, only 
H.263 so the 1Ghz processor is unlikely to handle HD that we know it.

Kevin