Hi:
I've been running MythTV on Mac OS X for a number of years.
<http://www.mythtv.org/> The core functionality is wonderful but the
build and install process on Mac is pretty darn painful!
A capsule summary for those of you not familiar. MythTV is a digital
video recording system with other components for DVD/BR videos,
internet video, music, slide shows, etc. There is a master backend
that handles scheduling recordings and serving media to one or more
frontends. The master backend stores all its information in a MySQL
database. There can also be slave backends that provide additional
TV tuners and storage. The simplest configuration is a single
machine running the master backend, MySQL database and frontend.
MythTV is Linux-first with ports to Mac OS, Windows and BSD. Lots of
people run the backend on Linux with a mix of frontends.
About 6 years ago, the backend was ported to Mac OS X when a couple
of tuning methods became available on OS X (firewire and Silicon
Dust's HDHomerun boxes). Only the frontend had been available before
that. A MythTV-developed Perl script continued to be used to build a
.app bundle--it was expanded to bundle the backend as well as the
frontend. The problem is that the backend is not a double-clickable
Mac app. The backend is a server process more akin to MySQL. MythTV
is just about to release version 0.25 with a ton of interesting new
features.
Which leads me to MacPorts. It occurs to me that using MacPorts to
build and install the backend might make the process a lot easier and
automate some of the tougher parts (installing a startupitem for the
backend). The hard part is that Myth is a pretty extensive
application with a number of dependencies--Nokia's QT plus several
libraries, MySQL, and some Perl modules just for the core system.
I'm done some searching and I think MacPorts has existing ports for
all the dependencies except two Perl modules.
So, am I crazy? I'm not a developer but I've been building my own
MythTV system with the Perl script for some years. I'd like to
contribute to a better all-Mac MythTV experience but I would
certainly need a bunch of help and support to get a functioning
MacPorts port file. Anybody else interested?
Craig
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