[mythtv-users] MythTV Mac Announcement

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 4/16/14, 4:56 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there.
>>
>> This is for anyone using the mac frontend client...
>>
>> As you know, if you've been using the bundle applications, it meant
>> you never really had a full mythtv experience: no metadata, settings
>> pretty much unusable due to the use of very dark fonts the list goes
>> on...
>>
>> I've finally managed to make the various side utilities (all those
>> using the python bindings) to work. And fixed all outstanding issues
>> (with the exception of Setup -> Videos -> General Settings screen
>> still doesn't work for some reason, but that's next).
>>
>> MythBackend app now works just as well, and all features are now usable..
>> Obviously you need a compatible hardware capture card like a HDHR. Or
>> record HLS streams (guide to set it up is there:
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Setting_up_HTTP_Live_Streaming_Recorder)
>>
>>
>> File is available here:
>> http://www.avenard.org/files/mythtv/mac/MythTV-v0.27-220-g4dc201f.dmg
>>
>> Application is a universal 32/64 bits Intel, run on any mac >= 10.6
>>
>> I'm not sure there's much point there days to cater for 10.6 and 32
>> bits. It makes the application 60% bigger
>>
>> Though, running the application in 32 bits mode on some Core 2 Duo
>> machine is a tad faster (about 6%) which is just enough to allow
>> playing HD on those old mac.
>>
>>
>> Hope you like it...
>> Jean-Yves
> This is both the backend and frontend, correct? will you be creating
> updated frontend only dmg's? it looks like your latest is
> MythFrontend-v0.27-196-g3ca3f6d.dmg from March 27?
>
> thanks!
>
Why is that a concern? I simply dragged the FE (and Mythwelcome) to
Applications and left the BE in the image, as I have a dedicated BE.
The only concern I can think of is the download time.