Hi, my name is Patrick and I have been using MythTV for the last couple of days on my Mac. Basically I love MythTV and I am amazed at how well the frontend works on the Mac already. I have gotten MythVideo to work as well as some other plugins and it works really well on my new Mac Mini. I would love to help out getting MythTV to work better on the Mac and I think with the new Mac Mini there would be a lot of people who would love to use their Mac as a media box.
Now to get down to the problems: 1. There is no backend. This basically means that using the installer MythTV is pretty much useless unless you have a Linux backend (the installer does not install any plugins). Now I am aware that the current backend just doesnt work on the mac and probably never will. I would love to write a new Mac backend that used some of the USB tuners out there from <a href="http://www.elgato.com/";>Elgato</a> but it would take a lot of work and probably wont happen anytime soon. I propose that the Mac version simply disables anything related to recording TV from a tuner or watching live TV. 2. Some plugins such as MythDVD are written to only support linux /dev devices and not MacOS. This should be pretty easy to fix and I will look into it. Other plugins such as MythMusic might need a little work to compile properly and also should look into the user's ~/Music folder (or ~/Pictures for MythGallery) and would thus work out of the box without any user interraction. 3. Currelty there is one binary package and it does not include any plugins. It would be nice to make a better installer, with optional plugins, QT framework installed somewhere where other QT apps can access it and some documentation. I am currently in the process of trying to fix all these problems for my own machine. I am planning on contributing any improvements back to MythTV and if there is someone else who is working on Mac specific issues I would love to work with them. ~Patrick
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