[mythtv] Making MythTV more OSX Friendly
Patrick Tescher
pat2man at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 17:36:54 EST 2005
The Quicktime framework has an API for recording video and I think it
has been there since earlier Mac OS versions that had support for TV
tuners. If we could make a few changes to the mac version so that
quicktime handled everything instead of v4l the backend should work (I
guess I just made it sound easy, but I realize that it will not be).
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:23:54 -0500, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:10 pm, Jeremiah Morris wrote:
> > I haven't looked at the backend code much, but from what I've heard
> > it's pretty tied to the V4L2 (Video for Linux 2) API, and would be
> > difficult to port to other systems lacking that API. I don't know how
> > true that is, or if it would be possible to write a compatibility layer
> > to communicate with drivers like the ones at
> > http://www.defyne.org/dvb/driver.html.
>
> There's absolutely nothing preventing a non-v4l build.
>
> Isaac
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