Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:13:37 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: nox@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xbmc-pvr-addons: on the way to xbmc pvr Message-ID: <20130818131337.GA40218@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X3FiH_R-t9TKeXJsnoHqUbnFF3Zg__YB5_rFiV1uwOVSg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAE-m3X3FiH_R-t9TKeXJsnoHqUbnFF3Zg__YB5_rFiV1uwOVSg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:23:50AM +0200, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: > Hi guys, Hi! > > now that we have xbmc 12.2 and tvheadend in the portstree the next > step to a proper PVR solution running on FreeBSD is to add the xbmc > pvr addons that allow to use various backends like tvheadend. > > I have already created a port for the pvr addons that builds and > installs just fine but for some reason xbmc doesn't like them and > doesn't even display them in the GUI or any errors in the logfile. > > To try out the xbmc-pvr-addons port: > svn co https://svn.redports.org/decke/multimedia/xbmc-addon-pvr > > It should build and install fine but it doesn't seem to have any > effect on xbmc. You can also build ZIP packages for the addons that > you can try to install via the Addon manager. > > Build zip addons: > cd xbmc-addon-pvr && make && cd work/xbmc-pvr-addons-12.0-Frodo && make zip > > Install ZIP addons: > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on_manager#How_to_install_from_a_ZIP_file > > With the ZIP files I always get "Add-on does not have the correct > structure" immediately. No log message that tells why it's > complaining. > > > There was one error in the logfile with stock multimedia/xbmc 12.2 > that I fixed on the way: > ERROR: PVR - CreateTables - failed to get add-ons from the add-on manager > > I fixed it with the following patch that I also needed for xbmc-pvr-addons. > http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/patches/xbmc-12.2_1-addon-fix.diff > > > So we are pretty close to a working xbmc pvr because the requires > parts are all there already. We have an up-to-date xbmc 12.2 in the > tree. tvheadend with FreeBSD support from latest git is also available > in multimedia/tvheadend and works fine with webcamd devices. The > xbmc-pvr-addons port is also there already. All that is left is > getting that parts working in combination. > > I hope someone has an idea what is going on there or how to fix that. :o) > I finally got around looking at this and turns out the fix is really simple if you know it: xbmc seems to look for <platform>linux</platform> in the addon.xml files not freebsd. I added back freebsd too in case this gets fixed later tho. (first post-patch REINPLACE_CMD.) Index: Makefile =================================================================== --- Makefile (revision 15743) +++ Makefile (working copy) @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ BUILD_DEPENDS+= xbmc:${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/xbmc RUN_DEPENDS+= xbmc:${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/xbmc -PATCH_ARGS= --suffix "" USE_GL= gl USE_AUTOTOOLS= libtoolize aclocal libtool automake autoconf MAKE_JOBS_SAFE= yes @@ -29,8 +28,10 @@ .include <bsd.port.pre.mk> post-patch: + @${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|@OS@|freebsd linux|' \ + ${WRKSRC}/addons/*/addon/addon.xml.in @${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|-ldl||' \ ${WRKSRC}/addons/pvr.hts/Makefile.am - @${RM} ${WRKSRC}/addons/*/*.orig + @${RM} ${WRKSRC}/addons/*/*/*.orig .include <bsd.port.post.mk> HTH, :) Juergen
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