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I have put the card in my wife's Win7 laptop and it discovered, and installed (the drivers i got from Broadcom) perfectly fine. I have downloaded a video player that I will use to test the card. I ran VLC with and without the card but the CPU difference was negligable. It is a C2D laptop so it could handle the 1080p file anyways. The drivers you can download from Broadcom comes with a utility that sits in ur tray and mine says broadcom crystalhd inactive, but i put my card back in my Apple TV.
I will let you know later how everything pans out.
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Try a live disc if you can.
I couldn't get mine to work and thought it was faulty, but it ran fine in the ATV on a live cd.
So I knew the card was working.
I ended up upgrading my ATV to 3.01 and then redoing the xbmc install and following the instructions again and then it all worked.
Must have been something I did wrong previously I guess.
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ok,
I've tried installing the windows GL latest build and it would force close on me until i took out the card.
I guess I can factory reset my ATV, since I've upgraded to 3.01 already, i believe. and just ssh in and try all of the steps before even loading libraries.
Will report back later.
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oh yeah wich build are you using? the official nightly or the one from the link posted in the tutorial?
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Ok now I know i'm not crazy.
I just used the XBMC-live usb boot and BroadcomHD shows up under render method and there is a significant difference in the 1080p movie I am streaming over SMB.
It was still a little jittery but not outright skipping like it was on the latest official nighly build.
I am going back into the live usb boot to try out a 720p file that was skipping badly to double check my findings.
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it plays a little smoother but the CPU is still running at 100 percent. I have contacted my seller and am trying to get this thing exchanged.
I am going to put linux on my apple tv in the mean time. I really don't like the sluggishness of the UI