On Feb 23, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Isaac Richards wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:16 pm, Noah Patton wrote:As for just running the hardware with Linux, I was under the impression
that there is an issue with big-endian/little-endian - namely,
PPC/MacMini is big-endian and in MythTV there are some little-endian
fields in some of the headers. These fields need to be byte-swapped so
that they're interpreted correctly on PPC. As for how much work this
is, I don't know - but taken in combination with Isaac's comments of
"no mac port anytime soon" I'm assuming it's a more difficult process.
Err, what comments?
As far as I know, the backend works fine on Linux/PPC with an x86 frontend -
all endian issues should have been taken care of. The only reason there's no
mac port of the backend is because no-one's written a video capture class
that talks to whatever drivers work on that OS.
Isaac
Err, my most sincere apologies - I seem to have misattributed in my brain the comments made over at mythtv.info as comments that came from mythtv.org, i.e. Isaac/you. Since mythtv.info is a Wiki anyways, this is a double my-bad. Sorry! I don't actually know who wrote the "no mac port anytime soon" statement at http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx. Again, my apologies - I won't make that mistake again. :-)
Thank you very much for all the work on a spectacular product! I was very happy to see the new front end support in .17 for MacOSX, and your own personal interest in buying a Mac mini at some point - that can only mean good things for MacOSX support in the future! :-)
Glad to hear the endian issues are all resolved, I'll quit reading old threads. :-) Development is moving quite quickly it seems, with more and more people taking interest. All good things I think!
Noah
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