[mythtv-users] AppleTV with Linux

[Mitch Gore]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Paul Fine <pfine at comcast.net> wrote:

> A question about AppleTV.  Perhaps the answer is obvious, but my
> searching did not yield a clear answer.
>
> I am still in SD mode, and I probably will be for a while.  My goal is
> to get my MythTV BE out of my living room.  My TV is SD and has
> composite, component and S-video inputs.  The AppleTV has component
> output, so at first I assumed that I could use it with my SD TV, but
> some of the verbage on the AppleTV spec page (
> http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html ) made me give it a second look.
> It does not seems to list 480i as a supported mode and it says it is
> "Compatible with enhanced-definition or high-definition widescreen TVs
> ..."
>
> Would I be able to use this as a MythTV FE using my SD TV's component
> inputs?  Would it work?
>
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>
Although I dont have a ATV but my understading is the video chipset is
Nvidia.  That being said the drivers do support 480i over component.

Mitchell
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