mactv
Share your Mac with your TV: the Mac runs a separate desktop for an Android TV, and both can be used at once.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 72%)
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- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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No Using a Mac as a separate desktop for an Android TV requires low-latency virtual display creation, screen capture, hardware video encoding, and streaming, all of which are systems-level macOS and video work.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a macOS virtual display driver or a private API for creating a second screen, plus hardware-accelerated H.264/HEVC encoding and low-latency streaming to an Android TV client. This takes engineers with macOS graphics and kernel-adjacent experience, and possibly Apple entitlements.
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Attention rank: #445 of 474 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
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- mac-tv · github · 2026-10-30 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Mac TV · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- aTV RC · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- device-hub-pro · github · 2026-10-06 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SpareScreen · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- OpenTV-Cast · github · 2026-10-24 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TV - Family Calendar · ph · 2026-09-17 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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