[mythtv-users] New OS X Installer

Tom Bongiorno tbjr at bongohut.com
Tue May 13 14:30:01 UTC 2014


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>wrote:

> At 8:53 AM +0100 5/13/14, Justin Hornsby wrote:
>
>> FWIW I've seen somebody writing his own userspace drivers for USB DVB
>> tuners based on the V4L API for OSX to use with tvheadend. I don't think
>> he's ever released any of it though.
>>
>
> The "Import Recorder" offers a potentially simple route to talk to
> external USB tuners.  There was a user last year who was doing that with an
> Hauppauge HD-PVR on OS X.  He was using it with a command line program
> called HDPVR Capture (commercial, developer wants $30). Unfortunately, he
> found that program wasn't very stable--crashed every 24 hours or so.
>
> Still, one wouldn't need to write a full-fleged driver...just a
> single-purpose command line utility to change channels, record, etc.
>
> BTW, about the only documentation I can find on the Import Recorder is the
> commit message:
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/65bcb3938928fd07efb314c32d1e4e
> 0984212c94/mythtv
>
> I think I'll at least make a stub page in the wiki...
>
> Craig
>
>
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Sorry for a noob question, but does this allow you to install just the
frontend? Is this the best way to go about doing a frontend only
installation on Mac OS X?

-Tom
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