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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Apr 17 02:00:16 UTC 2007


On 04/16/2007 06:02 PM, Vlad Olenin wrote:
> I am installing MythTV 0.20

Make sure you use 0.20-fixes SVN ( http://svn.mythtv.org/ ).

> on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy, Server Edition, compiling from source with DVR 
> support disabled.

?  You mean DVB support?  Or is this some kind of Ubuntu thing?

> 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),

Using "make install", right?

> 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!

The existence of the plugin binary causes it to appear in the menu.  
Therefore, your plugins aren't being found, meaning there was an error 
in the process you used to compile/install.  Did you remember to run 
"./configure --prefix=/usr" (plus all other appropriate arguments)?

Mike


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