[mythtv-users] New OS X Installer

[Craig Treleaven]

At 10:30 AM -0400 5/13/14, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
>On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Craig Treleaven 
><<mailto:ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>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/65bcb3938928fd07efb314c32d1e4e0984212c94/mythtv>https://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/65bcb3938928fd07efb314c32d1e4e0984212c94/mythtv
>
>I think I'll at least make a stub page in the wiki...
>
>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?


You can use just the frontend this way but you're probably better off 
finding the frontend app bundle.  Eg:

http://www.avenard.org/files/mythtv/mac/

or

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvformacosx/files/

Unless you want to run Myth stuff from the command line on your Mac?

Craig