[vdr] Re: VDR on PowerPC (was VDR Mac OSX port?)

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Daniel Schneider schrieb:
> 
> >  > >where would you find a dvb card for mac?
> >>  macs do have pci slots...
> >
> >
> >Why porting it to MacOS x? You can easily run Linux on a Mac, and then
> >run MacOS with MOL in a window.
> 
> Because OS X is the best Unix on the planet... ;-) (or will be, when
> some flaws are fixed, at least it's the best usable Unix for people
> who don't want to get deep into system stuff).
> 
> But anyway, is it possible to compile the DVB drivers and VDR for
> PowerPC CPUs on a Mac Linux distribution? Has someone done this
> before?

OK VDR compiles, if you remove the -m 486 option. The driver failed in
dvb.c line 3566 "unknown field 'busy' specified in initializer". I
cannot really try it out, because the PCI-bus of my IBook is only
internal.

> This would only be interesting for people having older Mac's standing
> around. The advantage of an Mac OS X port of VDR/DVB drivers would be
> the easier to use and configure system (at least for non-Unix/Linux
> professionals), also I would like to be able to watch DVB TV channels
> in a window on the desktop while working ;-).

Ohh that's possible, with X you can have several independand windows on
your computer. It's really cool, you can even move them and they can
overlap. Much better than what you have on the Mac or that Microsoft
thingy. It's kinda like OS/2
 
> Dany

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