[mythtv-users] Apple iTV - MythTV Frontend?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Wed Jan 10 05:02:37 UTC 2007


Chris Ribe wrote:
>
>
> On 1/9/07, *Kevin Kuphal* <kuphal at dls.net <mailto:kuphal at dls.net>> wrote:
>
>     Kevin Hulse wrote:
>     >       I have 2.5TB of unemcumbered content and a GigE wired
>     > network. So neither of those Apple straightjacket-ware
>     > features are of much interest to me.
>     >
>     >
>     And you can import that into the AppleTV and play them nicely. 
>
>
> You had better start transcoding now, though, because all of that 
> unencumbered content needs to be transcoded to an h.264 flavor that 
> the decoder in the Apple TV can handle. 
>
> Assuming that is 2.5TB of 2mbps mpeg4 content, your MacBook Pro should 
> finish transcoding sometime around Halloween.
>
> Don't have an intel mac already?  Good luck finding non- OS X software 
> to transcode into one of those Apple TV formats.
>
I noticed that also.  No MPEG-2 support at all.  Kinda makes it just 
about useless in Myth terms...

Kevin


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