<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Craig Treleaven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca" target="_blank">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Few Mac users even look at Myth as setting up an OS X-only system is widely reputed to be basically impossible for mortals. Fewer still will choose to go with a linux backend.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, it's not easy, especially since OS X has no support for tuners. Unless you have a MythTV supported network tuner (I don't, and aren't aware of any DVB-*2 ones even existing) you *have* to use a Linux backend. I use an Acer Aspire L310 running Debian as a slave and my Mac mini running Mavericks as a master, using the poorly documented ability to have the MBE boot up the slave when it needs the tuners.</div>
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OTOH, EyeTV is the only other option for Mac users. It's publishers have only done trivial maintenance on it for several years...it doesn't even support the HDHomerun Prime for USA cable. But it is pretty easy to set up.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>And rock solid, in my experience, even for tuners that aren't on Linux. My slave backend will start giving me 0 byte recordings after only a couple of days up, but it's never up that long, thankfully.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After my experiments with virtual machines failed, I did think about using EyeTV's VLC plugin as a bridge to MythTV's network recording features, but since Elgato, as you say, don't seem particularly concerned with the software I decided not to try it, especially since UK EIT data is generally quite good, and that route would've meant losing it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Stuff like the web frontend, including browser-based setup and config, could remove/reduce one of the big barriers. Cool Apple-ecosystem treats like AirPlay make it stand out. Add in a simpler way to install a BE/FE/db combo, and ...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Craig</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Sam Jacobs on MythTV 0.21, UK Freeview, EIT-only EPG<br>mythbox: BE+FE, Mythbuntu 8.04, Athlon XP2000+@1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, nVidia GeForce 4MX (proprietary driver)<br>
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