[mythtv-users] mythtv on osx problems

[ivo welch]

Dear Experts:

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) http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_OS_X
and http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_on_Mac_x86
.  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).

here is my adventure so far:

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...)

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.

I select as my capture card the hdhomerun, and accept the defaults.  I also
put in a password and a temp directory, of course.

After MythTV-Setup is run, I did MythFillDatabase.  However, it does not
seem to do anything.  It just opens and closes.


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?

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:

2009-08-11 17:57:00.466 Using runtime prefix =
/Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources,
libdir =
/Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/lib
2009-08-11 17:57:02.029 Empty LocalHostName.
2009-08-11 17:57:02.029 Using localhost value of ivo-welchs-macbook.local
2009-08-11 17:57:02.031 New DB connection, total: 1
2009-08-11 17:57:02.034 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2009-08-11 17:57:02.036 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2009-08-11 17:57:02.037 Total desktop dim: 1280x800, with 1 screen[s].
2009-08-11 17:57:02.037 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2009-08-11 17:57:02.039 Using screen 0, 1280x800 at 0,0
2009-08-11 17:57:02.055 New DB connection, total: 2
2009-08-11 17:57:02.056 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2009-08-11 17:57:02.057 MythFrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org


2009-08-11 17:57:02.058 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2009-08-11 17:57:02.331 Total desktop dim: 1280x800, with 1 screen[s].
2009-08-11 17:57:02.335 Using screen 0, 1280x800 at 0,0
2009-08-11 17:57:02.337 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
2009-08-11 17:57:02.351 Using the Qt painter
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
2009-08-11 17:57:03.195 Loading from:
/Volumes/Users/ivo/Desktop/myth/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2009-08-11 17:57:03.259 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2009-08-11 17:57:03.349 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
2009-08-11 17:57:03.447 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
2009-08-11 17:57:03.451 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATA'
2009-08-11 17:57:03.453 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATAPI'
2009-08-11 17:57:03.487 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
2009-08-11 17:57:05.166 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2009-08-11 17:57:05.166 Using protocol version 40
2009-08-11 17:57:10.747 Deleting UPnP client...

Advice appreciated.

/iaw


-- 
Ivo Welch (ivo.welch at brown.edu, ivo.welch at gmail.com)
CV Starr Professor of Economics (Finance), Brown University
http://welch.econ.brown.edu/
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