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

Tue Mar 15 19:56:28 UTC 2011

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ben Eisemann <ben at locojeeper.com> wrote:

> MacNeal,
>
> Thanks for the reply... so I'm gonna just keep barking up "this-here"
> tree.  I was following the ATV Bootloader instructions as well.  I've been
> saving my notes, in hopes of making at least a mailing list report as to how
> I got mine tweaked.  There's all sorts of resources out there and a
> combination of about 6 or 7 different sources has netted pretty decent
> results so far.  Just doesn't seem to be anything real up to date.
>
> I got mildly distracted with the new (to me anyways) 1080i HDTV CRT and
> getting decent feed from the appletv to it... but i'll get back into the
> swing of things soon.
>
>
The only thing i really don't like is no sound through the HDMI.  Doubt that
will ever be fixed tbh.  Yea took me a couple hours to get it all set.  And
now I just update/upgrade it.  (mythbuntu).  That does take awhile at times.

Thanks again.
>
>
> God Bless,
>
> Ben T. Eisemann
> beisemann at gmail.com
>
> Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of
> its strength.—Charles Spurgeon
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <dardack at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ben Eisemann <ben at locojeeper.com>wrote:
>>
>>> MacNean,
>>>
>>> Are you running the 0.24 frontend on top of the AppleTV OS or on Linux?
>>>
>>> I've got Mythbuntu running with 0.24 on the AppleTV hardware and it works
>>> pretty well.  I only record SD content anyways (was given a 1080i HDTV CRT
>>> over the weekend, we'll have to see how that works).
>>>
>>> If your still running AppleTV OS did you use a pre-compiled binary or did
>>> you compile it yourself?
>>>
>>> I would very much like to run 0.24 frontend on top of the AppleTV OS...
>>> at least too see.
>>>
>>> Not sure about the Crystal HD chip... I'd like to try that.  I think from
>>> what I saw you'd need to run linux instead of mac os frontend to take
>>> advantage of it though.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 1. AFAIKnew anyways CrystalHD had drivers in XMBC but not in mythtv.  Why
>> I asked before I purchase one.
>>
>> 2. I got my super cheap like 2 years ago or something.  I put linux on it
>> ASAP.  I have a USB boot stick.  I just followed:
>> http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/  also the tips and tricks people
>> have posted on the discussion boards there, also
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_On_AppleTV_with_Mythbuntu_9.10 has
>> some of those tips and tricks.  So no never even ran the AppleTV OS, have no
>> need for it.
>>
>>
>>
>>> God Bless,
>>>
>>> Ben T. Eisemann
>>> beisemann at gmail.com
>>>
>>> Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of
>>> its strength.—Charles Spurgeon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, MacNean Tyrrell <dardack at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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%2F10%2F2011> <3%2F10%2F2011> <3%2F10%2F2011> <3%2F10%2F2011>
>>>>> 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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>>>>
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>>>>
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