[mythtv-users] OS X: how to start mtd? (was Re: Latest Intel OS X build?)

Matt Hannan mythtvlist at cox.net
Thu Jan 18 23:19:18 UTC 2007


David Snider wrote:
> Matt Hannan wrote:
>   
>> Is any one else experiencing Myth not exiting when you hit ESC?
>> I do not have a Mac keyboard, so I am wondering if that might be my issue.
>> What the heck is meta-ESC?
>>
>> And one more...
>>
>> Where do we get MTD from?
>>
>>   
>>     
> I'm having that same issue occasionally.  It doesn't happen all the 
> time, but some times..  If I do an "apple"+q it quits just fine.
>
> As far as MTD, I saw in the most recent osx-packager.pl script that it 
> modified something to do with the mtd file, so if you build with the 
> backend tools, it should be part of the bundle (I think).
>
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Thanks, Dave. I figured out my ESC issue. I was testing via VNC and that
is where is wasn't working. At the Mini it works fine.

I found mtd buried in /Applications/Mythfrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/,
but I have no clue how to run it at boot.
It isn't like OS X has /etc/rc.local!
Looked at creating a shortcut to /Library/StartupItems/, but that didn't
work.
And I do not quite grok launchd (or whatever the new Tiger xinetd deal
is called).

Any ideas?

I have been using Myth for YEARS now, but this is the furthest along I
have been in configuring a remote frontend. Been using it from the
backend forever and this is a bit...different.
Rather than dump all the questions in a single thread, I am going to
post a bunch of separate ones. Perhaps it will be easier for folks down
the road to search on.

Matt


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