[davilla]

Understood, but what about 1080i MPEG4? That's being accelerated i guess? The big question is what about hardware deinterlacing? Anything in the magic ball about that?

ATV would be the perfect little DVB-Client for my home if it only could handle 1080i streams! (MPEG-4)

Which mpeg4 ? part 2 or part 10 ?

[Razor_109]

Which mpeg4 ? part 2 or part 10 ?

I guess Part-10 MPEG-4 based on this Media-info output:

Code:

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format settings, CABAC           : No
Muxing mode                      : Container [email protected]
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 49mn 57s
Bit rate                         : 10.3 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Original width                   : 16 pixels
Height                           : 1 088 pixels
Original height                  : 32 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio    : 0.500
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.198
Stream size                      : 3.60 GiB (92%)
Language                         : English

Scan type shows progressive but its an interlaced file! Any other way to find out, our would you accept a muxdump to test it your self?

[Razor_109]

Sorry for giving this a bump. Has there been any progress on this part? Anyone tried using the IOS-PVR version of XBMC on their ATV2 and is willing to provide some results?
I’m living in the Netherlands, we have both SD and HD channels here
- SD MPEG2 Channels, 576i.
- HD MPEG 4 Part-10 Channels, 1080i
Can any of the developers maybe shed a light on how the ATV2 will handle these file-types? I guess the MPEG2 SD channel can be handled by Software rendering? And is there HW-acceleration + deinterlacing for the MPEG4 because this should be the main issue I guess.
I’m really interested in this information, would be sad to go buy a ATV2 and find out it wont play any live channels. So any experience of ATV2 + PVR would be great, let me know!

Btw. In my case, i'm interested in 1080i MPEG4 files!

[Memphiz]

You won't have luck with 1080i material because the GPU has no deinterlacing feature and so the stream will be decoded in software via CPU which won't have enough power...

[Razor_109]

You won't have luck with 1080i material because the GPU has no deinterlacing feature and so the stream will be decoded in software via CPU which won't have enough power...

Ok, so the GPU wont decode the stream and just not deinterlace? So it will display the stream correctly but with interlacing.