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

[scram69]

I'm running 0.27.4 on my mini from www.avenard.org/files/mythtv/mac/.  It
seems to work well with my Mythbuntu 0.27.6 backend.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:27 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Feb 22, 2016, at 9:02 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 22, 2016, at 7:49 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> What would be the easiest way to just install the mythtv frontend on a
> Mac OS X??
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > You can attempt building it yourself but you’ll need to download and
> install XCode which is far bigger than Myth.
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Jim A
>
> >
> > Craig
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> > http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> > MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>



-- 
________________________
"destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television
ecosystem"
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20160222/660de2d8/attachment.html>