[mythtv-users] OS X mythtv-frontend only installation

[Michael A Weber]

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 9:27 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 22, 2016, at 9:02 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 22, 2016, at 7:49 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
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>>> I’ve been looking around and the pre-built binaries I’m finding are packaged with backend and frontend for my Macbook Pro.  I only want to run mythtv frontend so I can edit videos.  I have a mythbuntu backend and a number of Kodi pvr-mythtv small PCs for media viewing.
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>>> What would be the easiest way to just install the mythtv frontend on a Mac OS X??
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>> jya used to make available a bundled Mac app that contained the frontend only.  I don’t think he’s been updating it recently, however.
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>> You can attempt building it yourself but you’ll need to download and install XCode which is far bigger than Myth.
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>> What is the motivation, anyway?  mythfrontend and mythbackend link to almost exactly the same set of libraries (Qt, ffmpeg, mysql, myth*, …) so the disk savings of a ‘frontend-only’ install isn’t nearly as big as you might think.  
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> Well, i just don’t want the backend and the database running.  I kept searching since I posted this and I found a frontend only. The file was on sourceforge.  It’s called: MythFrontend-0.27-intel-10.7-0.27.2-Universal.dmg.
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> It installed and runs okay.  At least good enough for editing.  I can edit and start the transcoding jobs on the backend.  So I think it works, but it may not be the latest.
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> Jim A
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>> Craig
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I was going to suggest the 0.27.3 download, which is what I THINK I have on my iMac at home and cannot verify right now.  I think that has a front-end app that you can choose to run when you’d like to run it.  The only requirement is major version from what I read on the wiki.

Hopefully what you found will work out for you.  If not, maybe the 0.27.3 will work for you.  Good luck!

Mike