The Mini in the basement is faltering under the latest prerelease version of XBMC, and it looks like I’m gonna have to pull the unit in favor of an equally decrepit MacBook (wait, it is so old it might actually be a PowerBook) with a more powerful GPU and more RAM.

However, doing so crosses the C-note boundary, and I will be looking into other options for configurable playback devices. The jailbroken Apple TV 2, running XBMC, is a clear contender.

I am pleased to report I was able to access live EyeTV streams via Beenje’s XBMC add on, EyeTV Parser. The add-on only features live streams under the Eden prerelease, though.

By god, I think I am beginning to grok this vast space of useless knowledge. For fuxache, it should not require an experienced computer person to tax the sum of their networking and hardware knowledge to accomplish this stuff, which amounts to watching TV.