[mythtv-users] OT: XBMC on Apple TV2 and iPad

[Brent Meyer]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Tom Bongiorno <tom at bongohut.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Richard Morton
>> > <richard.e.morton at gmail.com>
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>> >> http://xbmc.org/theuni/2011/01/20/you-asked-for-it-xbmc-for-appletv2-ipad-iphone4/
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>> > Holy crap, this changes everything. Full XBMC on all the devices? My
>> > head
>> > just exploded.
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>> This changes everything for what?  MythTV?  XBMC only supports up to
>> MythTV 0.23.  Also, what would we be giving up using an XBMC frontend?
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> It changes everything in that, you now have a small portable device with a
> great front end to all your media. Assuming that it works like xbmc works on
> my PC, I can point it to my media center front end and access my DVD rips,
> MP3 directory, and mythlink'ed recordings. I had to give my work iPad back,
> but I used to have it mounted to my refrigerator door. It would sort of work
> with Plex Media Server but it never had direct access to my backend servers,
> so it never worked the way I wanted. My only other options were xbmc / plex
> / boxee / MythTV on another PC, and that isn't exactly
> refrigerator-friendly.
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> I've tried several of the conversion routes, including Orb, PlayOn,
> TVersity, and another one that escapes me, and they're all a bit lacking.
> This has the potential to throw all of those into the trash.
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> As for Myth support, MythBox (http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/) supports
> 0.24, just not live TV yet.
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Huh, .24 support in MythBox must be very new... MythBox didn't support
.24 last time I checked, which I swear was just last week. Have you
used it? Any observations?