Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 63.196.198.159]
on August 16, 2008 07:40 PM
I'm seeing quite a few people that use both Linux and OS X in their homes now. It would be nice to have access to a Myth TV front end for OS X. If a native app is a bit much to ask for at this point, perhaps something running under X11 would be fairly simple to do?
Native support might also allow people to load the client into Apple-TV (since there are hacks to run other OS X Intel Apps on it).
The commercial offering, Eye-TV, is a very simple to install/use HD-PVR app for OS X, but I suspect Myth TV would provide a better platform for specialized hacks. For instance I'd like the scheduler to favor one tuner over another for the weakest signal I watch (it's just a bit more sensitive), and I'd like to be able to add the ability to control an antenna-change relay for certain channels (to better support some out-of-town signals coming from other directions).
Also I'd hope OS X Myth-TV ports could provide better support for some codecs or container formats. I'm assuming it uses ffmpeg for some operations. The VisualHub conversion utility on OS X is payware even though the developer is (separately) distributing a modified companion OS X ffmpeg binary build from his site to do the actual work.. He's not providing the ffmpeg source, and support for some things is missing (.mkv containers in particular). Seems like he must be violating the GPL???
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 63.196.198.159] on August 16, 2008 07:40 PMNative support might also allow people to load the client into Apple-TV (since there are hacks to run other OS X Intel Apps on it).
The commercial offering, Eye-TV, is a very simple to install/use HD-PVR app for OS X, but I suspect Myth TV would provide a better platform for specialized hacks. For instance I'd like the scheduler to favor one tuner over another for the weakest signal I watch (it's just a bit more sensitive), and I'd like to be able to add the ability to control an antenna-change relay for certain channels (to better support some out-of-town signals coming from other directions).
Also I'd hope OS X Myth-TV ports could provide better support for some codecs or container formats. I'm assuming it uses ffmpeg for some operations. The VisualHub conversion utility on OS X is payware even though the developer is (separately) distributing a modified companion OS X ffmpeg binary build from his site to do the actual work.. He's not providing the ffmpeg source, and support for some things is missing (.mkv containers in particular). Seems like he must be violating the GPL???
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