[mythtv-users] Re: myth and macs

[David Whyte]

If only Windows worked in the same way....~dreams~


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:34:22 -0800, Brad <mythtv at braddolman.com> wrote:
>  
> How do other people handle their 
> music/image files? I'm thinking I'd like to use the mac to manage the 
> data (assuming this "apple is user friendly" stuff isn't bunk), but I'd 
> grown used to being able to view/listen to my files from my living room 
> via myth. 
> 
>  
> I've found that my Myth box and my Macs are pretty happy together. Pretty
> easy to setup too. I've got a .16 backend and a Al PB 15" 1.25Ghz and a Al
> PB 12" 1.33Ghz. 
> 
>  
> I set up samba on my Myth box and share my entire /store, which contains all
> Myth's music, video, photo, etc. I also use it for file sharing between my
> Macs. Recordings aren't on this share, but I have been using the Mac
> frontend binaries to access the recordings from my Mac. It works pretty well
> over 802.11g with only occasional, almost non-existant, pauses (a little
> more buffering would probably make it spot on). 
> 
>  
> I always hated having all my music on my Mac for iTunes because its a lot of
> space that I could be using for other computing/work related data so I just
> copied my entire iTunes folder from my Mac to /store/mythmusic. Then I made
> an alias from that location, put it on my Mac where it expects to find it
> (in the Music folder), and renamed it without the " alias" ending. Launched
> iTunes and Bob's you Uncle's Brother! This config has been working great.
> Myth scans the iTunes folder properly and all my music (except aac's and ALL
> is available from Myth (and MythWeb!). Its also available, via iTunes, over
> Samba on my Mac! Better still, Myth and both Macs can be playing/adding
> music or updating my iPod all at the same time without interfering with each
> other.It would be unbelievably great if Myth recognized the iTunes library
> and would make all my playlists and such available, but I'm willing to lime
> without it for the time being. 
> 
>  
> I also copy my iPhoto library to my Myth box (/store/photos) occasionally -
> as a backup to the copy on my Mac mostly - but those photos also appear in
> Myth Gallery that way. Again, it would be great if the Myth side recognized
> the iPhoto library and presented things in a more manageable manner (with my
> iPhoto albums, for example) but maybe that will come one day. 
> 
>  
> The other night, I realized that I could play my movies from my Mac even
> though this currently isn't supported in Mythfrontend (the Mac binary). I
> did this by running MPlayer on my Mac and then connecting to the movies in
> the Samba share. It worked great. I did have to increase the cache in
> Mplayer a bit to compensate for my weak 802.11g network but once I got that
> set, we watched an entire movie without a hitch. 
> 
>  
> All in all, its pretty slick. Definitely recommended. 
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