[mythtv-users] frontend on OSX?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 14:12, David Newman wrote:
> On 1/27/04 10:02 AM, "Darron Froese" <darron at froese.org> wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2004, at 10:41 AM, David Bishop wrote:
> >> Now that you can get QT for free on OSX, has anyone tried to get
> >> the frontend
> >> working, sans X?  I searched the archives linked from mythtv.org,
> >> but only
> >> found a couple people trying to playback the files using a patched
> >> mplayer,
> >> not trying to run the whole shebang.  Is this something I should
> >> even attempt, or would you need to be a l33t myth hax0r? :-P
>
> Mythfrontend runs using the X11 app included with Panther, but I
> wouldn't recommend it for anything except tweaking config parameters.
> It's s-l-o-w.
>
> dn

When you say "it runs", I assume you mean you're running on another 
machine and exporting the display to your OSX desktop?  That will be 
slow, and not much use for playing video because (a) you won't have Xv 
support, and (b) the sound wlll still come out of the machine running 
mythfrontend!

-JAC