AWOL Devs, Nightlies & EyeTV Plugin

[montressor]

I have 3 questions:

1) Are there any Mac devs still on this project? I've built a streaming solution for our state government around VLC and would like to expand the Mac support for it, but am concerned that the Mac developers seem to have somewhat abandoned this project. Currently, the system uses the Linux beta to convert and publish streams into FLV format, and we need to handle some archiving issues. VLC on a Mini would provide a great, low-cost solution but there seems to be a decided lack of interest/roadmap on the Mac side of things that makes me leery of going with VLC. I'm wondering if there is still active development going on, or wether a commercial solution would be a better choice?

2) Since we need to work with FLV, we need the 0.9x version, but I note the nightlies are dead and have been for quite some time, and again - there seems to be little or no interest form the Mac devs in fixing the issue. This seems like a pretty minor thing to address - is there really so little interest on the Mac side that they won't address this? VLC was long touted as a "swiss army knife" for video, but it rapidly looks to be falling by the wayside.

3) There has been some mention of integration with EyeTV. I almost hesitate to mention a new feature when important core issues remain to be addressed, but EyeTV functionality would offer us an excellent automated archiving solution - if it were working. If there needs to be some kind of workaround to get it running, I'd be interested in finding out what it is - I'm willing to compile my own EyeTV plugin form ElGato's SDK.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

1) There are still Mac OS X developers (2 very active, 1 less )
The new Mac OS X Framework shows that work is done there.

2) No, the issues are very more complex. As usual, Apple broke Xcode and all the building tools with Leopard and then with iPhone SDK. Therefore, you cannot compile all the libraries with Xcode 3.0, or you cannot compile easily for old PPC with newer SDK, or you cannot compile for Tiger anymore and so on...
Therefore, we wait and see how they are going to fix it. NB is a lot of work... The developers are more interested in doing some code than fixing Apple mistakes, which I can understand.
That doesn't mean the Mac OS port is discontinued. It works quite nicely.

3) You can check the status with feepk, but yes, there is a hack so far about EyeTV integration.

[montressor]

Thank you for responding. I'm glad to hear that things are moving forward.

re: #2 - So is there a timeline on fixing the compile issue for nightlies? It seems as though other project have addressed this issue. Or should we just give up on 0.9 for the mac until it's officially released? Note that the issue isn't PPC-only, but also seems to affect the Intel build.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I cannot speak for the Mac OS devs. I know one of the issue is about the diskimage process not doing his job correctly from command line.