Dear Experts:<br><br>I am trying to get mythtv going under OSX 10.5.8
with an hdhomerun. I am working off binaries of
MythTV-0.21-release.dmg, which is 6,279,402,420 bytes, and contains
front-end and back-end binaries. I am consulting (and updating as I
go) <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_OS_X" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_OS_X</a><div style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"> </div>
and <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_x86" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_x86</a><div style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"> </div>
. everything is running on localhost (a macbook 13" unibody), and
permission is '0000'. there is only one hdhomerun, it can be
discovered on the network (checked with hdhomerun utilities), and it is
thus FFFFFFFF (defaults to port 0 under mythtv backend setup).<br>
<br>here is my adventure so far:<br><br>I did manage to install mysql
and follow the instructions. (I am not sure why mythtv needs such a
heavy duty engine, esp. because it needs to be installed extra by users
who often don't know. sqlite in the backend may have done just nicely,
and could have been packaged. but this is not important. just an
opinion...)<br>
<br>I can run both the backend and the frontend. On a 2560x1600
screen, the default fonts don't seem to fit in the provided boxes.
they also seem to be light-gray on white by default, which is again
hard to see. this is minor issue but probably worth fixing. I dialed
back to 1280x800 for trying it out, but the font colors are still hard
to see.<br>
<br>I select as my capture card the hdhomerun, and accept the defaults. I also put in a password and a temp directory, of course.<br><br>After MythTV-Setup is run, I did MythFillDatabase. However, it does not seem to do anything. It just opens and closes.<br>
<br><br>ok, my main goal is to get TV watching to work first. First, how do I get MythTV to detect the channels that it can tune to?<br><br>second,
when I start the frontend and I just want to watch TV, nothing
happens. it waits a few secs, then blinks briefly, then I am again at
the frontend view:<br>
<br>2009-08-11 17:57:00.466 Using runtime prefix = /Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/<div id=":n" class="ii gt">myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources, libdir = /Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/lib<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:02.029 Empty LocalHostName.<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:02.029 Using localhost value of ivo-welchs-macbook.local<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.031 New DB connection, total: 1<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.034 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:02.036 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.037 Total desktop dim: 1280x800, with 1 screen[s].<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.037 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:02.039 Using screen 0, 1280x800 at 0,0<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.055 New DB connection, total: 2<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.056 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.057 MythFrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/" target="_blank">www.mythtv.org</a><div style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px; height: 16px;">
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2009-08-11 17:57:02.058 Enabled verbose msgs: important general<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.331 Total desktop dim: 1280x800, with 1 screen[s].<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.335 Using screen 0, 1280x800 at 0,0<br>2009-08-11 17:57:02.337 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:02.351 Using the Qt painter<br>2009-08-11 17:57:03.119 Loading from: /Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T/base.xml<br>2009-08-11 17:57:03.195 Loading from: /Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:03.259 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.<br>2009-08-11 17:57:03.349 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)<br>2009-08-11 17:57:03.447 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'<br>2009-08-11 17:57:03.451 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATA'<br>
2009-08-11 17:57:03.453 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATAPI'<br>2009-08-11 17:57:03.487 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)<br>2009-08-11 17:57:05.166 Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:6543/" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:6543</a><div style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px; height: 16px;">
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2009-08-11 17:57:05.166 Using protocol version 40<br>2009-08-11 17:57:10.747 Deleting UPnP client...<br><br>Advice appreciated.<br><br>/iaw</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ivo Welch (<a href="mailto:ivo.welch@brown.edu">ivo.welch@brown.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:ivo.welch@gmail.com">ivo.welch@gmail.com</a>)<br>
CV Starr Professor of Economics (Finance), Brown University<br><a href="http://welch.econ.brown.edu/">http://welch.econ.brown.edu/</a><br><br>