[mythtv-users] 0.24 Mac OS X Build

[Craig Treleaven]

At 7:55 AM -0800 1/16/11, John Sturgeon wrote:
>On Jan 14, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
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>> At 7:55 AM -0800 1/14/11, John Sturgeon wrote:
>>> On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Paul Raison wrote:
>>>> On 12 Jan 2011, at 23:03, Ash Bostock wrote:
>>>>> Currently I'm running MythTV 0.23 and mostly use myth frontend on my mac (OS X 10.5.8) to watch recordings.
>>>>> I'm planning on upgrading to MythTV 0.24 in the near future, is there anyone currently offering mac builds of MythTV 0.24 frontend for download?
>>>> There are binary builds on Sourceforge.
>>>
>>> I've had horrible luck with 0.24 stable... Until 0.24-fixes finds its way up to the sourceforge site, I would recommend staying on 0.23 for Mac OS X
>>
>> What 'horrible luck' have you had?  BTW, I believe the apps on sourceforge are, in fact, .24-fixes but prior to the move from SVN to Git.  There have been a couple of important commits to .24-fixes  (in Git) since the move.
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>The main problem I have had is with skipping forward and back in shows lagging by about .4 seconds each time... makes for a very slugging/painful viewing experience.  Also, watching HD content on my Mac Mini suddenly became a chore.  Some settings would work to get 1080i back up on it's feet, but 720p from ABC seemed to be very jumpy/jerky no matter what I did.  Crashes at least once/day (WAF is going VERY down at this point).  Exiting a show would take up to three seconds.

Interesting.  Sounds similar to the problem described in:

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9223

Note that Mark only applied this commit to fixes/0.24 on Jan. 14. 

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>I've been successfully building 0.24/fixes from Git and have been happy with the update.  skipping forward/back still lags a bit, but not so much as to make it unusable, and playback of all HD content is as smooth as usual.

Also interesting.  Did you rebuild in the last day-and-a-half to pick up the commit above?  A number of people are having trouble getting a successful build, see:

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9426

If you do rebuild, make sure you use the newest version of osx-packager.pl as it will download and install Yasm (if you don't have it already).  There are several assembler-optimized routines in the ffmpeg code that Myth uses.  *I* think that made a huge difference to the on screen display responsiveness but maybe I had some other config problem between the two builds. 

Craig