Thanks for the quick reply, will give it a go in the next week when I can find the time.
On Mar 24, 4:51 pm, "Scott D. Davilla" <[email protected]> wrote: > >I have used a patched appletv as a mythtv frontend (using mythbuntu) > >for a few months, for which I am of course grateful to this group for > >making such a process relatively painless. I see that it is now > >relatively straightforward to install XBMC (and mythbox?) onto the > >appletv and run it in on the native OS, which I think would mean that > >any hardware compatability issues should pretty much disappear. I was > >therefore wondering if anybody had set up an appletv frontend for > >mythtv using XBMC+mythbox and if they could comment on its performance > >compared to mythfrontend on an appletv with linux, particularly the > >responsiveness to channel changing. If anybody could confirm that the > >XBMC setup would mean a fully operating HDMI port (for convenience and > >connectivity, dont really have any HD videos to be playing), that > >would be great as well. > > XBMC with a mythtvbackend works great for recorded content. LiveTV is > "ok", channel changing is slow but that's really a mythtv issue in > general with the mythtv dev feelings about LiveTV :) > > one thing needed that the docs gloss over is adding the mytvbackend > to /etc/host. That's required under XBMC for Mac. > > Performance in decoding is similar but you will lose 1080i mpeg2 hw > decode via XvMC. That does not exist on OSX platforms. > > The HDMI port is fully operational including audio over HDMI. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
