[mythtv-users] MythTV Mac Announcement

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Stephen P. Villano
<stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

that is, essentially, why I asked.


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Steve
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