2009-10-23, 18:10
Hi guys.
I've been using xbmc on my media center for quite a while.
My young brother's wife want to surprise him with a streamer for his birthday, she wanted to buy a junk her friend recommended and I stepped in and told her to hold on.
To make a long story short: I didn't understand exactly how xbmc running on apple-tv, I understand that vpdau isn't supported on the nvidia 7300 gpu there so it means - cpu decoding (and therefore - no 1080p h264 support on the 1ghz cpu...)
My questions are:
1. Is installing xbmc on apple TV a matter of simple software configuration and installation or do I need to make any hardware modifications?
2. Is xbmc capable of playing everything up to 720p h264 streams (and including...)?
3. Are there any limitation on remote mounts, external drive, etc...?
4. Does the remote work with xbmc?
Basically - can I just buy my brother an apple-tv knowing it will work fine with everything he throws at it? (his TV is only 720p so nothing more than that, obviously).
Thanks!
I've been using xbmc on my media center for quite a while.
My young brother's wife want to surprise him with a streamer for his birthday, she wanted to buy a junk her friend recommended and I stepped in and told her to hold on.
To make a long story short: I didn't understand exactly how xbmc running on apple-tv, I understand that vpdau isn't supported on the nvidia 7300 gpu there so it means - cpu decoding (and therefore - no 1080p h264 support on the 1ghz cpu...)
My questions are:
1. Is installing xbmc on apple TV a matter of simple software configuration and installation or do I need to make any hardware modifications?
2. Is xbmc capable of playing everything up to 720p h264 streams (and including...)?
3. Are there any limitation on remote mounts, external drive, etc...?
4. Does the remote work with xbmc?
Basically - can I just buy my brother an apple-tv knowing it will work fine with everything he throws at it? (his TV is only 720p so nothing more than that, obviously).
Thanks!