[mythtv-users] future of the appletv (1g) frontend

scram69 scram69 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 18:09:39 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Tom Flair <lists at graniteskies.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:17 PM, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have a first-gen appletv frontend (0.23, Mythbuntu 10.04) that I
>> have been quite happy with.  I can watch SD and HD content recorded
>> from the HDHR smoothly using XvMC.  However, with XvMC disappearing
>> from 0.24-fixes, I am wondering what the future of this FE is as I
>> would like to upgrade my backend and other FE's to 0.24.  There is the
>> option of installing a Crystal HD card, but I haven't been able to
>> find any reports of success using that hardware with mythtv (e.g.
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD).
>>
>> Wondering what other appletv FE users are doing?
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> I have a BCM70015 running in a mini-itx build without too many issues.
> Skipping around successively occasionally causes issues with (I assume)
> buffering, and I only have to do this when it looks like commercial skipping
> has skipped too far.   Otherwise, it's been working.
>
> I'd imagine it should be the same if the card were installed in the AppleTV.
>
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the reply.  What version of the FE are you using?  Also,
did you install the drivers from Jarod Wilson's git page?

Cheers,
Steve


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