[mythtv-users] New Mac OS X Build Process--MacPorts

[Yeechang Lee]

Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> says:
> As JYA mentioned, the Perl/Python bindings would need special
> handling.

Yes, there was a misunderstanding on my part. I noticed after
upgrading to 0.25 that Jean-Yves' prebuilt Mac frontend couldn't find
the metadata grabber scripts, and after reading a brief mention in a
mailing list message on the topic believed that it didn't ship with it
(just as it doesn't ship with, say, MythWeather). I found the same
thing happened with the MacPorts frontend, and not until I read your
and Jean-Yves' discussion in this thead (and found
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/509643#509643) did
I realize that it is an issue common to all Mac releases, packaged in
.app or not.

> In the frontend, go into Setup>Setup>Appearance and change the Paint 
> Engine to Qt.

It indeed fixed the issue. 

> However, you'll likely get a blank screen, maybe saying "Please 
> Wait", if you try to watch videos with the Qt painter.  See 
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10469

Confirmed. I'd never used the Qt painter on the Mac so had no
knowledge of the bug's existence. How strange that both painters are
broken in different ways; thank goodness there is no overlap, eh?

While I have you on the line: May I request an AppleScript similar to
Myth_Start_Stop for mythjobqueue?

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