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

[Craig Partin]

> >>> 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.
> >
> I doubt it.  It doesn't have any MPEG-2 decompression support, only
> H.263 so the 1Ghz processor is unlikely to handle HD that we know it.
>

I thought H.264 was more cpu intensive to decode.  Would they have
optimized GPU assist for this one codec?  It's supposed to do 720p out
of the box