[mythtv-users] mythtv plugins - can't access functionality - no icons/text is displayed! HELP NEEDED!!!

Vlad Olenin volenin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 04:16:05 UTC 2007


Hi,

I am installing MythTV 0.20 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy, Server Edition, compiling
from source with DVR support disabled. I don't have TV Tuner card currently
installed and intend to used MythTV for now as a front end to play DVDs,
Movies, Music as well as try using the picture gallery.

After some trial & errors I finally managed to install MythTV as a combined
frontend/backend from source. All installation was done as a root. I got
mythtv files under /usr/share/mythtv directory and Frontend seems to be
starting up and running (again, as root).

My problem is that after installing MythTV plugins (again, compiling from
the source as root), I can't access any of them from the MythTV interface. I
did get the library files output to /usr/share/mythtv/plugins:

----------------
vlad at eagle:~$ ls -lFa /usr/share/mythtv/plugins/
total 7188
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2007-04-15 01:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root    4096 2007-04-15 21:21 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  198756 2007-04-15 00:54 libmythcontrols.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  327840 2007-04-15 00:55 libmythdvd.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1780786 2007-04-15 00:55 libmythflix.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  578844 2007-04-15 00:56 libmythgallery.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  613512 2007-04-15 00:57 libmythgame.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1305877 2007-04-15 00:57 libmythnews.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1120260 2007-04-15 00:58 libmythphone.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1181704 2007-04-15 01:00 libmythvideo.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  189732 2007-04-15 01:00 libmythweather.so*
---------------

and library.xml and mainmenu.xml files from /usr/share/mythtv directory
seemed to be fetched and read by MythTV correctly (tried to modify text for
'Watch TV' button and saw the changed in the interface). The problem is none
of the 'plugin' items from library.xml file is displayed in the interface,
so I can't access 'TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS', but not 'VIDEO_BROWSER' or
'MUSIC_PLAY' for example. The only way when I see the icon displayed (eg,
VIDEO_BROWSER) is when I comment out exiting 'action' and 'depends' tags
(with values 'JUMP MythVideo' and 'mythvideo' accordingly) and substitute
that with action tag taken from 'TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS' button. I do see
different image, which makes me think that interface configuration part is
working OK. When I click on it I'm being taken to 'watch tv' menu
(naturally).

I wonder what I'm doing wrong? Should plugins be specifically enabled
somehow in the DB or separate config file?... I had a brief look at
'settings' table, but couldn't find any related info. I also tried to put
'plugins' directory on the path (thinking MythTV just can't find the
libraries), but that didn't help either.

I hope someone can resolve this mystery.... THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Vlad
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