MythMusic Radio Streaming

[leejk]

Hi,

I was wanting to try this out, but not sure if this is included in the MacPorts distribution. Anyone else used this on a Mac yet?

Thx

[pvr4me]

At present, none of the plugins are distributed with the MacPorts all-in-one installer. Radio Streaming is part of the MythMusic plugin.

However, I added support for building the plugins a couple of months ago. By coincidence, I was playing with Radio Streaming just the other night and I can confirm that it works under OS X.

I plan to build a new installer for 0.28 when it is released and I'll probably do an update to the 0.27 installer. I 'll add MythMusic, MythGallery and MythWeather to these installers. The other plugins were largely non-functional on OS X when I've tested them previously. Now that 0.28 require Qt 5, perhaps the problems with MythBrowser, MythVideo and MythNews will be resolved. I think MythGame, MythArchive and MythZoneMinder are all too Linux-specifc to ever work under OS X.

Craig

[pvr4me]

Actually, just tried again and a couple of SkyFM stations failed to play. I'll look again later to see if there is some error logged.

BTW, the wiki page is essential:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythMusic_Radio_Streaming

Craig

[leejk]

Hello,

Thanks for the update. I'm currently running 27.4 I think. Would like to start trying it out, but sounds like I'd need to compile some things, right?

Thx

[pvr4me]

There are a few little tricks involved in moving from the all-in-one installer to building for yourself using MacPorts. Off the top of my head...

- the all-in-one installs under /opt/dvr whereas the default for MacPorts is /opt/local. You'd have to backup the database from your current environment and restore to the new one.

- you'll have to be careful about PATH to make sure you're running the actual versions you want.

- the backend startup plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons will conflict. You'll need to delete or move the old one aside before installing the new one.

- the programs installed under /Applications/MacPorts/MythTV will conflict. Again, you'll need to delete or move aside the old ones before installing.

Other than that, it should be a walk in the park!

Craig
PS Or you could just hang on for a few weeks.

[paulh]

Actually, just tried again and a couple of SkyFM stations failed to play. I'll look again later to see if there is some error logged.

BTW, the wiki page is essential:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythMusic_Radio_Streaming

Craig

In 0.27 we ship a static xml file with a list of radio streams that unfortunately over time has got some streams in it that no longer work, I think the SkyFM channels might have changed URLs and gone to subscription only. In 0.28 we now download a more up to date stream list from our server which also contains a lot more choice of streams (> 31000 at the last count).

That wiki page is good for 0.27 but needs to be updated for 0.28 at some point.

I think MythGame, MythArchive and MythZoneMinder are all too Linux-specifc to ever work under OS X.

Actually MythZoneMinder the frontend plugin should be usable on OSX since it's just a frontend to a ZoneMinder server running elsewhere on a Linux server.

You would probably just have to disable compilation of the mythzmserver which wont be of any use on OSX.

[pvr4me]

I think MythGame, MythArchive and MythZoneMinder are all too Linux-specifc to ever work under OS X.

Actually MythZoneMinder the frontend plugin should be usable on OSX since it's just a frontend to a ZoneMinder server running elsewhere on a Linux server.

You would probably just have to disable compilation of the mythzmserver which wont be of any use on OSX.

Thanks Paul!

I'll give the plugin a shot the next time I'm working on the port.

I've never done anything to explicitly enable or disable mythzmserver. Looking through mythplugins/configure, I don't see anything to turn on or off?

Craig

[leejk]

Ok, I will sit tight

Thx