[mythtvnz] Mac mini

[criggie]

On 11/06/11 11:23, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I've got this Mac Mini sitting around, and see that there's plenty of
> stuff on the wiki on running it on a Mac. However, would like any real
> world experience of running one as a frontend.
>
> Hardware's a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB mem, 1TB disk, running Mac OS X
> Server 10.6.7 atm.


I've got a 20" frankenimac which was assembled from some dead ones.

2.4 core2duo with 2GB and OSX 10.6.3

Lots of info at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Mac_OS_X

I downloaded 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvformacosx/files/MythFrontend-0.24.1-fixes-intel-10.6v0.24.1-9-g3657f31-dirty.dmg/download
and it just runs.  Choose location, address of backend, and it was away 
laughing.

Two problems so far
1) Live TV is fine, recordings are fine, but the database says that 
videos are found at /shared/television/mythtv  so the mac can't find 
them.  Probably needs a frontend specific address like smb:/server/share/
2) Themes don't work... you get the default brown one and it won't change.


Has anyone used the "apple remote" with mythfrontend?  I don't have one 
but it should work fine.


Intel macs are interesting beasts.... I booted XP home's installer, and 
freeBSD was quite happy too.  Knoppix 6.4.4 messed up the screen badly 
but still worked in text mode.

-- 
Criggie

http://criggie.org.nz/