[mythtv-users] Apple TV as frontend - but I don't have any widescreen yet

[jedi]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:54:59AM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:18 AM, jedi wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:43:03PM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >> On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:07 PM, jedi wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:13:24AM -0600, Travis Tabbal wrote:
> >>>> Does anyone have an ATV decoding and outputting HD ATSC MPEG2
> >>>> recordings?
> >>>> H264? I would need 720p output (TV native res). How is it  
> >>>> compared to
> >>>
> >>>    It does DVD's ripped to h264 just fine.
> >>>
> >>>    Personally, I wouldn't bother attempting "h264 at 720p" on an  
> >>> ATV.
> >>
> >> Personally, I would. Other people have reported success playing 720p
> >> h264 at "low" bitrates. I'm not sure what bitrates it can handle, but
> >> apparently it does ok on lower ones.
> >
> > That was Davilla and he actively avoids using the internal player.
> >
> > ...can't say that I really blame him. Although his is not a
> > configuration I would want to try and replicate.
> >
> > I will have to crank the bitrate down and see what happens.
> > Although for now I am more interested in keeping my backends up.
> 
> I've recently been recording with 2 HD-PVR's. In the process, I found  
> that I could not play back 720p content with my frontend until I  
> compiled from trunk and now I can play back quite nicely. For kicks, I  
> copied over one of my files to the AppleTV running current-fixes  
> mythbuntu and it *nearly* played back - meaning that video played back  
> smoothly and audio played back smoothly, but out of sync with each  
> other. When I find the time, I'm going to reformat the AppleTV,  
> install with ubuntu and compile a trunk frontend which, by all  
> indications, will play back 720p content ok.
> 
> If someone happens to know of a public repository for running a recent  
> trunk frontend under mythbuntu, I could test this much quicker and get  
> a definitive answer.

Don't be a wimp. Just check out the source and build it.

I'm running trunk (everywhere).