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Very true!
Only problem is that before Gotham, everything worked perfectly fine.
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Oooooooooh!
New things to try!
I've gotta get to work, but will try later tonight!
thx nickr!
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I fully understand your hopes though i might need to destroy those once more. The fact that Gotham consumes to much memory on the ATV2 that it is not usable for some people when streaming HD content is the result of multiple improvements which where done in a generic fassion (meaning those improvements hit all platforms). Bumping ffmpeg version for example could be such an improvement. The problem is that the ATV2 is only "maintained" by me and it is the worst platform to develop for (no official development tools from apple).
I am not planning to dig into the memory consumption thing (don't even know how to do it - missing tools...). Said story is, its more likely that i decide to remove support for ATV2 all together. Its an outdated platform and there is no official development support from apple (like for all other ios devices). Its just a slow old platform which is handled for way to much $$ on ebay. There are really better alternatives out there now and its really not worth the hazzle.
So if those memory consumption problems don't solve themselves (like with another generic improvement) - i don't see the ATV2 having a big future on the official XBMC/Kodi code. (sure there is always the possiblity of 3rd parties to continue support but there were zero code contributions to the ATV2 code from outside - so its unlikely).
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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If you drop ATV2 can you pick up support for the Sinclair Spectrum please?
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I had an Amstrad 6128 as well, but I tried to sell it, I thought an enthusiast would buy it. Instead a little old lady turned up insisting that it was just the thing to get her into the modern world. I couldn't take her money, but it is hers...
Weird day, she came around, found the door unlocked and was sitting in my lounge when I got home. She couldn't even turn her car around on the steep hill where I lived, she'd got my neighbour to do it.
But I digress...
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I had a feeling that support for the ATV platform might be headed in that direction. No JB for the ATV3 probably didn't help matters. I'm surprised to hear how hard development is though, I had no idea about the lack of dev tools for iOS. Was it just a lack of tools being ported, or is there more to it? Huge fact that you're the sole maintainer and that it still works as well as it does it a testament to your skill and I applaud you sir.
I feel like maybe it is time to retire my two ATV's, but am not sure what I should replace them with. I've been eying the Amazon FireTv as it seems like a nice platform, but I've heard that it's not fully supported yet. Do you know anything about it, or if the FireTv isn't an ideal choice, what would you recommend?
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Firetv=android=limitations on framerate and audio. Instead consider Asus chromebox.
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