[mythtv-users] mythtv on ppc (was: cvs compile problems)

[Cedar McKay]

>
>         I think OSX X11 does have Xv support and fink Qt is the X11
> version (Qt/Mac is not free?) so the easiest path is to run mythtv
> under X11 anyway.
That is lovely to hear about the Xv support. You are correct, QT for 
X11 is free, QT for windows, mac, etc cost $.


>  It looks like the Altivec parts were written for Apple's gcc
> or maybe some version from Motorola.  For now, I'll just try to get
> mythfrontend to work without Altivec.  Later on, I will take a look at
> Gentoo/fink mplayer to see if/how they used Altivec-enabled
> libavcodec.

That is fine with me, the machine I want to run frontend on is a G3! 
Altivec is for you rich snobby G4 owners.



>   What might be a problem is sound (no OSS), but we
> could probably take a look at fink mplayer or xine to see how it's
> done.
>

Well, unless mythtv frontend (player only!) accesses the sound system 
in a very different way from mplayer and all the other sound enabled 
apps that run fine on OS X with fink, then I can't imagine it would be 
too difficult (says the idiot who can't code).


I might get curious enough about all this to download as many 
prerequisites as I can using fink, and see what happens when I try to 
compile. I predict that it won't work, but I'd like to see how it fails.



best,

cedar