[mythtv] MacOS X binary

Eric A. Litman elitman at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 6 04:04:30 UTC 2004


What frame/bitrates are you viewing over the wired network? A G3/700 seems 
like it should be plenty of horsepower for moderate bitrate video.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Drake" <pcjabber at gmail.com>
To: "Willy Boyd" <xkalibur8 at gmail.com>; "Development of mythtv" 
<mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] MacOS X binary


I use an iBook G3/700, 256MB RAM. I tried over 802.11b -- quite
choppy. Tried over 100Mb/sec CAT-5 Ethernet, still choppy. But better
=) I like the all-in-one approach =)

--Tyler


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:57:08 -0500, Willy Boyd <xkalibur8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:48:33 +1000, Ben de Luca <bend at bedel.mine.nu> wrote:
> > could you get the video to play? ok? I have the same setup and I dont
> > get any frames playing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/10/2004, at 9:26 AM, Zaheer Merali wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:56:33 +0200, Jan Örnstedt
> > > <ornstedt at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I have created a darwinports port for mythtv. I will submit it when I
> > >> have resolved a quirk with qt3-mac 3.3.3. It builds nicely with 
> > >> 3.3.2.
> > >>
> > >> This port is based on mythtv-0.16 and has Nigels mac patches 32 & 33
> > >> applied.
> > >> It also has some patches to make it completly self contained.
> > >> To make it easier to boot strap it also contains Nigels mysql.txt
> > >> patch.
> > >> All libs and the binary is in one App which can be moved around via
> > >> drag
> > >> & drop.
> > >> The default install is however in /Applications/Darwinports.
> > >>
> > >> It also has a nice icon based on Titivillus theme
> > >> thanks to Ashley Clark making the Icon.
> > >>
> > >> If you want to try it out here is a disk image with a pkg.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.ornstedt.nu/mythtv-0.16.dmg
> > >>
> > >> Any comments are welcome!
> > >>
> > >> /Janne
> > >>
> > >
> > > Just tried on my IBook G4 12" 800MHz running Panther over 802.11g to a
> > > 0.16 backend with 2 DVB cards and 1 bttv card.  Works very well.  As
> > > someone mentioned, the video does not scale to the resolution of the
> > > display.  Well done to all the macos porters and to the packager, you
> > > guys are great!
> > >
>
> Just tried here, on a 1.33GHz AlBook, 768 megs of ram.  Video was a
> tad choppy, live tv worse, but that was over wireless.  Looks like if
> I bothered with the CAT-5 it would be flawless.  Only other problem is
> the non-scaling video, as mentioned.  I capture at 352x480.
>
> - Willy
>
>
> > > Take Care
> > >
> > > Zaheer Abbas Merali
> > > http://zaheer.merali.org/
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