[mythtv-users] Anybody using 0.24 on a (1st generation) AppleTV or anyone on Mac OS 10.4?

[MacNean Tyrrell]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Ajay Sharma <ajayrockrock at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> wrote:
> > On 3/10/2011 18:04, Ben Eisemann wrote:
> >> Now comes the MythFrontend install... everything i've been reading
> >> references old versions of MythTV (i.e. 0.21).  Has anyone had success
> >> running the 0.24 MythFrontend on the first generation AppleTV's?  They
> >> run a variant of Mac OS 10.4... so anybody running that?
> >
> > The first generation AppleTV has a 1GHz Pentium M.  It won't have enough
> > power for playback of anything better than standard definition.  If you
> > load Linux on instead, you can try using a CrystalHD decoder in place of
> > the wireless card.  Beyond that, with only 256MB of memory, depending on
> > the display resolution, mythfrontend will likely start swapping and may
> > be unusably slow.
>
> I have a 1st gen apple tv but I use it as an XBMC frontend and there
> are addons for mythtv as well.  It's pretty decent with the CrystalHD
> card.
>
>
Is the CrystalHD card supported in MythTV yet?  And if so how much they
cost?

BTW I have .24 on my AppleTV.  The menu's are slow but playback is fine of
SD content (mkv files ripped at constant 16, TV shows recorded with
pvr-250/500, etc.).


--Ajay
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-- 
Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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