[APPLE TV] XBMC for Mac (Atlantis Beta 1) on the Apple TV

I would just like to thank the devs on this. The thought of not having to transcode movies for viewing on my tv system sounds great.

I would also like to issue a +1 to PowerPC support. All my Macs are PowerPC and the likelihood of me acquiring an Intel Mac in the near future is nil.

Off-topic - Sorry if this has been brought up already, but this is quite a lengthy thread.
Shouldn't it be technically possible for one to image their atvusb-creator created flash drive and upload that image somewhere, allowing someone else to download and clone that image to another flash drive (using Disk Utility, for example)? Has this been tried?

osxrulz Wrote:Shouldn't it be technically possible for one to image their atvusb-creator created flash drive and upload that image somewhere, allowing someone else to download and clone that image to another flash drive (using Disk Utility, for example)? Has this been tried?

Creating an disk image is trivial, providing it in a 100 percent legal method is not. It's not a technology problem but a legal one. The AppleTV boot.efi is required but including it in any download is a violation of Apple IP. I for one will not risk providing any disk images containing boot.efi.

The intel/ppc version of atvusb-creator has passed testing. If I don't get word from googlecode about increasing my download space in a day or so, I'll find another distribution method or just post the ppc version as it will run on both intel/pcc OSX computers.

Well I didn't mean you specifically. Just wondering if my suspicion was correct.

Anyway, I am EAGERLY awaiting the PPC version.

Keep up the great work

davilla released the PPC version this morning.

osxrulz Wrote:Well I didn't mean you specifically. Just wondering if my suspicion was correct.

Anyway, I am EAGERLY awaiting the PPC version.

Keep up the great work

intel/ppc version is posted now. see the downloads section in atvusb-creator at googlecode.

I'm thinking about getting an AppleTV to run XBMC. Primary use will be for playing back ripped DVDs and Blu-Rays (in MKV containers) from my media server (wired connection). For now, I'll be outputting the video (via my receiver) to a 720p projector, but I hope to upgrade to a 1080p projector in the next 6 months or so.

Does the AppleTV have the horsepower to play 1080p video?
I saw on the wiki that MKV doesn't seem to work well... is that still true?
If so, what about 1080p files in other containers on the ATV?

Donny Bahama Wrote:Does the AppleTV have the horsepower to play 1080p video?
I saw on the wiki that MKV doesn't seem to work well... is that still true?
If so, what about 1080p files in other containers on the ATV?

Welcome to the forum.

First rule of the forum... learn to search before posting - almost every question that gets asked has already been asked and answered. But to save you the trouble this time around, ATV only has a 1GHz CPU and XBMC does not currently use hardware for accelerating video rendering. So...

1) 1080p is out.
2) MKV can work, but be careful about the profiles.
3) See 1.

S80_UK Wrote:Welcome to the forum.

Thanks!

Quote:First rule of the forum... learn to search before posting

Yes. And every other forum on the planet. Very experienced forum user so, I did that before posting. Problem I had was finding info that was specific to ATV or specific to XBMC but I wasn't sure about the combo...

Quote:ATV only has a 1GHz CPU

Missed that, so, thanks!

Quote:1) 1080p is out.
2) MKV can work, but be careful about the profiles.
3) See 1.

Got it. Again, thanks!