<div dir="ltr">I would test with xbmc first and see if it works. Also wiki has this <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="" lang="en"><p>There exist cases
where one graphics display system or another fails to show menus or
video properly. These instructions are for forcing the frontend to use
OpenGL for display.
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<h1> <span class="" id="Instructions"> Instructions </span></h1>
<ul><li> Start <b>MythFrontend</b>
</li><li> Choose <i>Setup</i>
</li><li> Choose <i>Appearance</i>
</li><li> Highlight <i><b>Paint Engine</b></i>
</li><li> Use the arrow to select <i>OpenGL</i>
</li><li> Choose the <b>Next</b> button. Keep choosing it until it turns into a <b>Finish</b> button. Select <b>Finish</b> and you are done.
</li></ul></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Alan Chandler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk" target="_blank">alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have been using Mythtv with a Backend Setup on an Ubuntu server and front end on Debian Sid for a long time now. All works well<br>
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Today I purchased by first mac ever - one of the new Macbook Airs just announced - so I hope I did the right thing in installation and starting the app. I downloaded the 0.26 dmg file for mythtv-frontend, opened it and dragged the front end icon into the applications folder.<br>
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I started up the app bypassing security and it asked me for the name of backend and logon details for the database. These I entered correctly ( I know because when I first got them wrong it told me it couldn't connect to the backend). There was a next button to go to the next page - (I assume it was page 2 of database configuration - I didn't pay much attention), but then only the finish option (unlike the linux version which has many more pages).<br>
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But then the application fails to do anything. I essentially have a blank screen (with the slight brown tinge that is in the default theme).<br>
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If I start up the app monitor and force quit the frontend (ordinary quit is ignored), I briefly see the default theme section icons at the bottom of the screen before the application quits in response to the force quit.<br>
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If I start the frontend again, it no longer takes me through setup, so I just have a completely blank screen, and no way I can see of accessing any menu. I am forced to use the App Monitor to kill it.<br>
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Is there a problem with Mountain Lion (the version of OSX I have), or is there something else that a newbie to the Mac should know about setting up Mythtv.<br>
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