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n9yty
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No osx love for biftool? Why not?

Why no osx love for biftool? Sure doesn't seem like it would take much to provide one, especially given the linux version...
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newmediadude
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I second that!

I second this request.
- Marcelo
Twitter.com/WebDevicesDude
CenterForNewMediaStudies.com
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fimion
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Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

thirded. very excited about all of this!
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brantc
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Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

I 4th the motion. would hate to have to buy a PC 🙂
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KennyJ
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Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

"brantc" wrote:
I 4th the motion. would hate to have to buy a PC 🙂


You could just run a linux distro.
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-LD
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Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

VirtualBox and Linux. Both free and would be a good workaround.
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bbefilms
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Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

Would appreciate if the devs could compile biftool for the Mac pronto..!
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n9yty
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Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

"-LD" wrote:
VirtualBox and Linux. Both free and would be a good workaround.
So, install a virtual machine and a whole separate OS install to run one simple binary that could easily be recompiled to run on osx? Although it would provide a solution if there were no other alternative, I'd really like to prod the Roku team to provide an osx binary so it can be done with a minimum of monkeying around.
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bcl
Channel Surfer

Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

Or just rewrite it in python 🙂 The format is documented.
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bcl
Channel Surfer

Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?

I wrote one in python that runs on OSX and Linux, you can get it from here (note there is a 1-off error in line 118, remove the +1)
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