[mythtv-users] I feel so violated (by Apple)

John Patrick Hoke john.hoke at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:29:08 UTC 2006


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On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Martin Bene wrote:

>> I must first say that I have been a passionate Apple Evangelist since
>> my conversion in 2000.  But, today I just found out that OSX
>> (Quicktime, iDVD) has no way of handling MPEG-2 that comes of my
>> hauppage PVR-500.  To do it you must purchase a $20 plugin from  
>> Apple.
>>  That's freaking sad!
>
> Use VLC, that handles mpeg2 just fine on a mac. Also, be careful if
> you've got files recorded from DVB as TS (transport stream): the apple
> plugin doesn't support these! (VLC handles these as well).
>
> Also, VLC deals nicely with changing aspect ratio or audio streams in
> the middle of a file and allows selection of different audio  
> tracks. The
> only issue I ran into when using VLC: with default settings I got  
> choppy
> video, even though CPU usage was minimal. Changing buffering for file
> access from 300ms to 2000ms fixed this.
>
>> I thought I would be brilliant about dealing with the fact that
>> KnoppMyth cannot burn DVDs out of the box by using my Mac.
>
> Recent versions of Knopmyth include mythburn and thus support DVD
> creation.

Richard,
all the clients in my house, other than my mythboxes, are Apple... be  
they powerbooks, ibooks, imacs or g5 boxes.  I have three  different  
ways of watching video captured by my pvr cards on myth

1) I mount my video repo on the BE via samba, or burn the mpg to dvd  
and open the file natively in VLC
2) I use MythBurn and make a DVD that I can play in any DVD player,  
including my daughters iBook (I do this for her cartoons each week)
3) MythFrontend for Mac. I had this working under 0.18 ... haven't  
updated yet with 0.19 so I cannot speak to how well it will work  
(yet). When id did work I watched live tv, recorded tv, ripped DVDs  
etc on it w/out an issue.

Since installing VLC and mPlayer on my Macs, I do not think I have  
opened quicktime once.

VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
mPlayer OSX: http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

Personally, on my macs, I prefer VLC over mPlayer, but YMMV. I have  
not yet found a video file that I cannot play in VLC... not saying  
they aren't out there, but I just have not had one cross my path ;)

- -John
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