[mythtv-users] Frontend for Apple TV 4

[jedi]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 06:46:17PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Tom Harris <thom.j.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
> > I am assuming that the AppleTV is doing software decoding, because none of
> > the Apple APIs I know of support MPEG2, including Mac OS X devices which
> > definitely do have the hardware support for it.
> 
> Almost all the SoCs hardware support it if the device support H.264.
> It is licensing and APIs that are missing.  I believe (just as with no
> Flash support) Apple thought that if they pointed the way, everyone
> would go there.  And while H.264/5 may be the place most will end
> up at, with the FCC's version of ATSC requiring MPEG2 in the US,
> it is going to be a slow path for OTA customers.

    Except MPEG2 is a legacy format. There's a large amount of content out
there that has been created by end users in that format. Apple's apparent
hostility to MPEG2 has always intrigued me.

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