<html><head></head><body><div><br></div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2026-05-29 at 06:06 +0800, James Linder via mythtv-users wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>First for the record I think apple make microsoft look warm and cuddly.<br></div><div>But I need AI stuff so iPad pro is the best fit for my needs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I seek opinion: perhaps John:<br></div><div><br></div><div>to put mythtv on iPad is using VLC and uPnP or perhaps NFS a good way to go?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Each app on iPad must be completely sandboxed. Is it worth the effort of porting mythfrontend.<br></div><div>Qt offer quite nice cmake tools and pathway.<br></div><div><br></div><div>James<br></div><div><br></div><div>PS there is also the nightmare of signing the software.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Question, do you need to actually run a frontend on iPad, or do you just need to play already recorded content from your backend ?</div><div><br></div><div>If the latter, you can do an auto-transcode job to make a copy of the recording transcoded appropriately for the iPad and have it put in a different recording group,</div><div>access the backend from it's web-interface, select the appropriate recording group for the iPad and play it.</div><div><br></div><div>There was a web-program that would do transcodes on-the-fly and gave a web page for what was done, what was available, but (for me) that was many years ago, no clue if it's still around.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div>--</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></body></html>