[mythtv-users] Status of Win32 builds for MythTV
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mythtv at kosowsky.org
Sun Apr 28 13:34:23 UTC 2019
Stephen Worthington wrote at about 21:13:13 +1200 on Sunday, April 28, 2019:
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:57:00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >I am looking to find and/or build a Windows mythtv frontend for ver
> >29.1.
> >
> >In looking at the wiki
> >(https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Windows), there doesn't seem to
> >be anything updated since circa 2013 and ver 23.
> >
> >- Has anyone successfully built a Windows frontend using a recent mythtv
> > version?
> >Are there any pre-builds available?
> >Failing that, are there any updated build instructions?
> >
> >I like the idea of watching mythtv from my Windows laptop...
> >
> >Best,
> >Jeff
>
> These days, laptops are getting pretty powerful. So you could
> consider using mythfrontend in a virtual machine on a Windows laptop -
> it may well work well enough now. And you can always dual boot - that
> is what I do, so I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 both on the same
> SSD drive. Booting 18.04 is very fast now from an SSD as systemd was
> optimised for quick booting and the extra parallelism that a good SSD
> allows. And both Windows and Ubuntu can now access each other's
> partitions - it is easier from Linux as ntfs3g is very good now, but
> you can use the Paragon drivers from Windows to use EXT partitions.
Thanks Stephen.
The challenge is I use a locked-down work computer that doesn't let me
multi-boot, but I can run .exe's.
So would love just to compile mythfrontend for windows...
- Has anybody done it successfully recently?
- Has anything changed in mythtv that would make the old process no
longer work?
A bit surprised that I am the only one trying this as mythfrontend is
so good on laptops...
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