Posted January 5, 2010 by MrDingle
Yay, Finally we have osx support for broadcoms crystal hd! This means it is now possible to keep the existing Apple TV os AND run xbmc with CrystalHD hd video acceleration 
Scott Davilla finally made his efforts in porting the broadcom open source linux crystalhd driver to osx lib and kext available to the public
More info on Davillas efforts here
Visit broadcom for more info on Crystal HD and check here for windows and linux driver downloads.
Tags: apple, appletv, atv, broadcom, crystal, crystalhd, hd, kext, lib, linux, open, osx, source, tv
Posted November 30, 2009 by MrDingle
Broadcom CrystalHD is a Mini-PCIe expansioncard to make your box do hardware decoding of HD video material (h264, vc1++)
Got a old AppleTV which you dont use? Buy a CrystalHD chip on ebay for 30 dollars, and it will play 1080p for you
Install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on your box, if you are going to use an AppleTV you can follow the guide here:
http://dingleberry.me/2009/11/ubuntu-karmic-koala-on-appletv-with-broadcom-crystal-hd-decoder/
Download the xbmc crystalhd branch and the lib directory from the xdmx branch which has the necessary crystalhd include files:
svn co -r 22347 https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/xdmx/XBMC/xbmc/lib/
svn co -r 25101 https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/branches/crystalhd
prepare the system for crystalhd support:
mkdir /usr/include/crystalhd
cp -a lib/crystalhd/include/* /usr/include/crystalhd
cp /usr/include/crystalhd/windows/bc_drv_if.h /usr/include/crystalhd/bc_ldil_if.h
Edit /usr/include/crystalhd/bc_dts_types.h and comment out line 59 so it looks like this:
//typedef void VOID;
Copy the crystalhd include files to the crystalhd branch source:
cp -a /usr/include/crystalhd crystalhd/xbmc/lib/
Download the bcm70012 source and build the module:
wget http://www.norco.net.cn/UpLoadFile/Driver/bcm70012_linux_01142009.rar
unrar e bcm70012_linux_01142009.rar
tar xf bcm70012_linux_01142009
dpkg -i bcm70012kmod-source_0.9.30_all.deb
apt-get -f install
dpkg -i bcm70012kmod-source_0.9.30_all.deb
cd /usr/src/
m-a -t a-i bcm70012kmod
cd -
Install the gstreamer plugin from the HP mini 110 distro (the file came with the driver download in the step above)
dpkg -i --force-all gst-broadcom-70012_0.9.30_lpia.deb
Now follow the steps from the README.ubuntu file inside the crystalhd source:
sudo aptitude install subversion make g++ gcc gawk pmount libtool nasm automake cmake gperf unzip bison libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libfribidi-dev liblzo2-dev libfreetype6-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libasound-dev python-sqlite libglew-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libmad0-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libsmbclient-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcre3-dev libdbus-1-dev libhal-dev libhal-storage-dev libjasper-dev libfontconfig-dev libbz2-dev libboost-dev libfaac-dev libenca-dev libxt-dev libxtst-dev libxmu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libpulse-dev mesa-utils libcdio-dev libsamplerate-dev libmms-dev libmpeg3-dev libfaad-dev libflac-dev libiso9660-dev libass-dev libssl-dev
On 8.04 and older versions, libmms is outdated and thus XBMC will not compile properly.
In this case you will have to manually compile the latest version.
wget "http://launchpad.net/libmms/trunk/0.4/+download/libmms-0.4.tar.gz"
tar zxvf libmms-0.4.tar.gz
cd libmms-0.4
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
After all deps has been installed and libmms has been compiled and installed you are ready to compile xbmc. cd to the crystalhd source and do:
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install
Finito!
POST-install tweaks:
Enable Pixel Buffer Objects
Start xbmc without loading Gnome
And some more AppleTV specific stuff:
Set fixed cpu frequency
Various fixes for Ubuntu on ATV
Tags: 8.04, apple, appletv, atv, bcm70012, broadcom, compile, crystal, crystalhd, driver, hardy, hd, linux, tv, ubuntu, xbmc
Posted November 27, 2009 by MrDingle
UPDATE! – Karmic Koala uses a newer kernel which wont make the bcm driver work, use Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy in step 4, and your driver will work Confirmed 1080p playback on Apple TV with hardy! 
1. build patchstick with http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/
2. boot atv with patchstick
3. Partition sda as per instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/PartitioningLinux
4. Download netboot http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
4. Run netboot as per instructions under Netboot Install:
http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/BootingLiveCD
5. Install karmic with sda4 = / and sda5 = swap
5.1 Remember to select sda4 as root filesystem with ext3 NOT ext4
6. Modify boot_linux.sh with something like the following:
mount /dev/sda4 /tmp/
kexec --load /tmp/vmlinuz --initrd=/tmp/initrd.img --command-line="root=/dev/sda4 initrd=initrd.img vga=normal vesa video=vesafb"
umount /tmp/
kexec -e
7. WORKING UBUNTU WOOHOO
8. Download linux bcm70012 from:
http://www.norco.net.cn/DownNews_Show.asp?ID=215
Making system ready:
aptitude install build-essential unrar
unrar e bcm70012_linux_01142009.rar
cd bcm70012_linux_01142009
mv bcm70012_linux_01142009 bcm70012_linux_01142009.tar
tar xf bcm70012_linux_01142009.tar
dpkg -i bcm70012kmod-source_0.9.30_all.deb
apt-get -f install
dpkg -i bcm70012kmod-source_0.9.30_all.deb
cd /usr/src/
m-a -t a-i bcm70012kmod
cd -
dpkg -i --force-all gst-broadcom-70012_0.9.30_lpia.deb
22. WORKING bcm70012 !! WOHOO
Tags: 1080p, appletv, atv, bcm70012, broadcom, crystal, crystalhd, hd, karmic, koala, ubuntu, xbmc
