[mythtv-users] Apple TV almost working. Only a slight issue remains
Michael Brancato
mike at mikebrancato.com
Sat Oct 11 20:56:24 UTC 2008
This is surprising. I've done 1080i with a number of nvidia setups.
Getting the apple tv to output component 1080i was trivial.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 11, 2008, at 2:17 PM, "Kevin Robbins" <robbinsck1 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Michael Brancato <mike at mikebrancato.com
> > wrote:
>>> So, you have no problems whatsoever with the program guide? It's
>>> slow
>>> as helle everywhere (live tv, gui)
>>
>>> Little OT and sorry I can't help. But would you (or anyone) mind
>>> sharing your xorg.conf I have not been able to get 720p or 1080i
>>> out of my
>>> appletv either component or hdmi. I'm driving a samsung 19" lcd
>>> that's capable of 1080p. It would be much appreciated and good luck
>>> with the sound.
>>
>> Sorry, I'm a digest reader, you may need to reply-to-all...
>>
>> From what I can tell, the guide has no delay (except maybe 2 seconds
>> re-generating the current channel's preview). Blazing fast.
>>
>> That said, I made the huge mistake of picking a poor theme, and
>> everything
>> was slow. Everything from just moving through the menu's, to
>> playing TV. I
>> switched from Blootube to Mythcenter, and things became 10x faster
>> in all
>> respects for mythtv. I believe a good part of that was it went
>> from using
>> 60%+ RAM to using around 40% only be switching themes. I thing
>> Mythbuntu or
>> Retro would have similar results. I think swaping out of ram was
>> causing
>> huge performance issues.
>>
>> I'm running 1080i through component. I do have to adjust for
>> overscan, but
>> thats my TV's fault. I just adjust the GUI size to 1720x954
>> (that's what
>> works for my TV (6yo Toshiba 57in HDTV, no DVI).You can find most
>> of what
>> you need to tweak on the atv-bootloader website. My Xorg config
>> follows:
>>
>> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
>> # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister at builder57) Thu Sep 18
>> 17:19:17 PDT 2008
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier "Layout0"
>> Screen 0 "Screen0"
>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Files"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> Load "dbe"
>> Load "extmod"
>> Load "type1"
>> Load "freetype"
>> Load "glx"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> # generated from default
>> Identifier "Mouse0"
>> Driver "mouse"
>> Option "Protocol" "auto"
>> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> # generated from default
>> Identifier "Keyboard0"
>> Driver "kbd"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>> Identifier "Monitor0"
>> VendorName "Unknown"
>> ModelName "Unknown"
>> HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
>> VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
>> Option "DPMS"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Device0"
>> Driver "nvidia"
>> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>> Option "RegistryDwords" "RMDisableRenderToSystem=1"
>>
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "Device0"
>> Monitor "Monitor0"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> Option "DPI" "100x100"
>> Option "UseDisplayDevice" "TV-0"
>> Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPONENT"
>> Option "NoLogo" "True"
>> Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "True"
>> Option "AddARGBVisuals" "1"
>> Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "1"
>> Option "NvAGP" "1"
>> Option "TVStandard" "HD1080i"
>> Option "Coolbits" "1"
>> Option "VideoOverlay" "1"
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1920x1080" "1280x720"
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Extensions"
>> Option "Composite" "Disabled"
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Brancato, CISSP
>>
>
> Thanks much for the Xorg.conf, no luck though. Does anyone else have a
> xorg.conf that actually works at either 720p, 1080i or 1080p with the
> apple tv? Component or hdmi is fine with me. Hopefully I can piece and
> part enough of them to get something other than a black screen.
>
> Kevin
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