[mythtv-users] heliocreek help request

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/29/2008 10:45 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> As I understand it, heliocreek is a fork of MythTV; therefore, you  
>> don't
>> install MythTV then install heliocreek, you install heliocreek / 
>> instead
>> of/ MythTV.
>>
>> However, the only real "benefit" of heliocreek seems to be the YouTube
>> integration.  If you really want YouTube, you may want the MythTube
>> plugin ( http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5589 ).  However, getting  
>> it
>> would require the use of SVN trunk, which means you should sign up for
>> the -dev and -commits list and read them and keep up with changes  
>> (i.e.
>> several hours per week of work to use trunk).  Therefore, it may  
>> just be
>> better to use MythTV for now, create a menu entry in the Myth menus
>> using EXEC to launch your browser and have it go to the YouTube site,
>> and wait patiently for MythTube to be available with a released  
>> version
>> of Myth.
>>     
>
> I can't get that to compile as it looks like it's using qt3 

Oh, if it's using Qt3, it's still -fixes, so you wouldn't have to use 
trunk (/couldn't use trunk without porting it to trunk/Qt4 :).

> (I'm using  
> QT4 and am hesitant to install QT3 out of fear it will break my qt4  
> stuff since I don't know a whole lot about qt) and I couldn't find a  
> way to change the install prefix from /usr/local to /usr (as my setup  
> requires). Just a heads-up for anyone seeing this message and wants to  
> install MythTube.

Yeah, I haven't used it as I don't really see YouTube as a "benefit." :)

Mike