Daniel Kristjansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:28 -0500, David Abrahams wrote: >> I'm beginning to wonder if using MacOS for MythTV is such a hot idea >> in the first place, as there seem to be important parts of the system >> that would need to be ported. Several features like mythbrowser, >> transcode, mythmusic, mythgame, and mythphone, (and, I presume, >> upcoming DVD burning(?), which is important to me), seem to rely on >> linux specifics, and I guess it's going to be nontrivial to port those >> to MacOS. I really like the idea of a MacOS MythTV appliance, but not >> if it's going to be a full-time job to get there. > > You're not the only person who wants OSX to be better supported.
I'm sure. The question is whether anyone else is willing to make further _investment_ in it. > I'm planning on repurposing my wife's Mac Mini when she retires it. > It would be great to be able to hook it up to the Firewire port on > our cable box at that point. Well, you can do *that* much since yesterday :) > Transcode and commercial flagging should be fairly simple to port, > there shouldn't be any platform specific code in there (though there > are always little snippets.) Unfortunately yes; if you enable transcode in config, the build fails. I didn't think there was any problem with commercial flagging, though (?) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
