[mythtv-users] Apple TV hacked to use other codecs

Craig Partin cpartin at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 14:43:28 UTC 2007


> Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> says:
> > That device is very interesting.  According to that thread and
> > others, it has almost a full blown OSX installation on it.  It looks
> > like a very promising SD MythTV frontend.
>
> What's more, there's some evidence the box was intentionally designed
> to make do-it-yourself projects easy:
>
> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473502&postcount=39>
>
> and the hardware is designed to support 5.1 sound, even if iTunes
> doesn't yet:
>
> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473754&postcount=73>
>
> Raw technical specs, straight from bash:
>
> <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3473972&postcount=100>
>
> Lots of enthusiasm here:
>
> <URL:http://www.digg.com/apple/XviD_fully_functional_on_Apple_TV>
>
> --
> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US


The two questions now are:

1. Can it run the OSX version of mythfrontend?
2.  Are the video drivers good enought to allow a 1Gig processor to playback HD.


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