[mythtv-users] Has somebody got a *complete* list of dependencies for mythburn?

Adam Bodnar ambodnar at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 07:30:10 UTC 2006


Were you running the CVS version of mythburn on .18 or SVN?

On 1/11/06, Sdk <sdkovacs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Thomas R. Bruce <trb2 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Crew:
> >
> > I've been trying to get mythburn running.  This appears to be a matter
> > of getting it from CVS and then trying to follow a progression of
> > bug-stomps reported via various discussion spaces.  I'm having trouble
> > doing this, for a couple of reasons strongly tied to my own ignorance
> > about how transcoding and DVD burning work, made worse by the scattered
> > nature of information about mythburn.
> >
> > First, which packages/software does mythburn require as prerequisites
> > for installation?  Which version of ProjectX, for example? Does someone
> > have a comprehensive list, including further dependencies by required
> > packages? (for example, ProjectX is either bitching that it needs more
> > java libraries from somewhere or other, or it's bitching that it needs
> > the means to get them itself, I can't tell which).  I'm installing on
> > top of FC4.
> >
> > Second, can someone briefly describe for me, step-by-step, the process
> > that mythburn is implementing?  It would be very useful to know what
> > sort of intermediate files/outputs it's expecting from one stage to the
> > next, as I have no conceptual map of what series of transformations it's
> > trying to make.
> >
> > Just trying to catch a clue here, but lacking a net.
> >
> > Best,
> > Tb.
> >
> > --
> > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
> > Thomas R. Bruce (trb2 at cornell.edu)
> > Director, Legal Information Institute
> > Cornell Law School
> > http://www.law.cornell.edu/
> > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
> >
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> This really may not be complete. I'm doing this mostly off the top of
> my head and this is my experience with mythburn CVS installing on
> Fedora Core 3 as of about 3 weeks ago.
> This is the howto I loosely followed when installing.
>
> http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo
>
>
> 1) ProjectX .82 ( You may be able to use .90 but youll have to muck
> around with the mythburn scripts.
> 2) Xvfb
> 3) dvdauthor
> 4) mjpegtools
> 5) ImageMagic
>
>
> For projectx, I made a shell script called /usr/local/bin/projectx
> containing the following:
> #!/bin/bash
> java -jar /usr/local/bin/projectx_dir/ProjectX.jar $@
>
>
> The projectx_dir above is just a directory where I untarred projectx .82 into.
>
> I followed the instructions on pulling down the latest from CVS, but
> instead of mkdir /myth/mythburn, I just did mkdir /myth because I had
> trouble with the install script looking for files it couldnt find.
>
> Thats all I remember now.
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