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Jan
2005
Mac Mini projects abound!
There is a new Mac media center projects page (via Engadget), which covers all you may need to know to fully deck out your mini for media center goodness. Well, I guess it really applies to *any* mac. Hrm, I wonder what the minimum reqs for running MythTV frontend are on a mac.
Thanks to a certain cool aunt of my girlfriend’s her original G3 mac has no immediate use. Mayhaps another TV frontend? A big problem is, however, that the S-Video out on the A/V card (excellent addition to a a computer IMHO) does not currently work under OS X and there isn’t a DVI out to use the S-Video dongle on. A puzzle to be sure…
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January 31st, 2005 at 11:08 am (#)
What’s the problem with the A/V? I thought you’d be able to run mirroring through the port. Is this PCI not supported?
January 31st, 2005 at 9:11 pm (#)
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/MythOnMacOsx
February 1st, 2005 at 7:48 am (#)
No, the A/V ports, for whatever reason, don’t work under OS X. At least, that was the official Apple word when I checked about a year ago when we installed OS X. The PCI works, so it would be possible to get a TV Out card.
As for MythTV, Nigel has a link to the DarwinPorts version (link here) that includes an installer and is ‘idiot proof’.
February 1st, 2005 at 11:16 am (#)
From a while back, there is this discussion on AVSForum that discusses using the Firewire SDK plus D-VHS to record HDTV streams.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/printpost.php?postid=3616279
I suspect you’ll need something in addition to the AV card, however. Nothing online indicates that Apple has provided this functionality with subsequent updates. Not a surprise, since the system requirements are probably outstripping the abilities of the 333 mhz G3. Mind you the Pismo worked fine with sufficient RAM.
http://www.macintouch.com/mediaserver01.html (search for beige)
February 2nd, 2005 at 9:45 pm (#)
Macdevcenter decsribes Apple’s HackTV setup via Firewire. Very neat. Is this where they enter the media center market?
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/26/hacktv.html
February 4th, 2005 at 9:32 am (#)
The HackTV demo has, suprisingly, been part of the example applications since 10.1 I believe. Just hasn’t caught much attention until recently with the advent of DVR Macs.