On 22/03/2012, at 10:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I've been running MythTV on Mac OS X for a number of years. > <http://www.mythtv.org/> The core functionality is wonderful but the > build and install process on Mac is pretty darn painful! > > A capsule summary for those of you not familiar. MythTV is a digital > video recording system with other components for DVD/BR videos, > internet video, music, slide shows, etc. There is a master backend > that handles scheduling recordings and serving media to one or more > frontends. The master backend stores all its information in a MySQL > database. There can also be slave backends that provide additional > TV tuners and storage. The simplest configuration is a single > machine running the master backend, MySQL database and frontend. > MythTV is Linux-first with ports to Mac OS, Windows and BSD. Lots of > people run the backend on Linux with a mix of frontends. > > About 6 years ago, the backend was ported to Mac OS X when a couple > of tuning methods became available on OS X (firewire and Silicon > Dust's HDHomerun boxes). Only the frontend had been available before > that. A MythTV-developed Perl script continued to be used to build a > .app bundle--it was expanded to bundle the backend as well as the > frontend. The problem is that the backend is not a double-clickable > Mac app. The backend is a server process more akin to MySQL. MythTV > is just about to release version 0.25 with a ton of interesting new > features. > > Which leads me to MacPorts. It occurs to me that using MacPorts to > build and install the backend might make the process a lot easier and > automate some of the tougher parts (installing a startupitem for the > backend). The hard part is that Myth is a pretty extensive > application with a number of dependencies--Nokia's QT plus several > libraries, MySQL, and some Perl modules just for the core system. > I'm done some searching and I think MacPorts has existing ports for > all the dependencies except two Perl modules. > > So, am I crazy? I'm not a developer but I've been building my own > MythTV system with the Perl script for some years. I'd like to > contribute to a better all-Mac MythTV experience but I would > certainly need a bunch of help and support to get a functioning > MacPorts port file. Anybody else interested? Greg I think that would be most marvellous but, and I've never *built* a port (as opposed to building a program with macports), mythtv is always changing so the port would need lots of ongoing maintainance. The existing mac implementations seem to fix at a level eg 0.24, 0.24-1 and not tracking 0.24-fixes. ie http://avenard.org/files/mac/ Are you going to be the 'maintainer'? I'd definitely be a user James _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
