MythTV Frontend Hardware

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| So you're using an AppleTV?

No.  It is awaiting further hacking.

| I'd really like to know if the ATV can work with
| HD content: could you stream and playback at least 720p video? I'd assumed not
| so well, which is why I was looking at the mini instead... Thoughts?

It is supposed to work with iTunes content but I've no interest in
trying.  For one thing, it has to be a slave to a local machine
running iTunes.  iTunes supports MS Windows and Mac OSX, not Linux.

The facts are hard to come by.  According to this it supports TVs with
108p:
  http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html

But this suggests that it is really doing 720p and having the hardware
upscale if necessary:
  http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1541610&tstart=135

I don't know what, say, mplayer can support.  Some of the HD stuff may
require hardware assisted codecs that might be in the Apple software
and not mplayer or MythTV.

The CPU is a sort of Pentium M at 1GHz.
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