[mythtv-users] Compiling MythTV on Fedora 10, possible?

[William]

David Knight wrote:
> On Fri, March 13, 2009 12:25 am, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it's possible but I have not yet found the secret
>> recipe...
>>
>> If I try to compile trunk, it compiles but when I want to watch tv it
>> doesn't work
>> and complain that:
>>
>> VideoOutput, Error: Not compiled with any useable video output method.
>> NVP(0), Error: Couldn't create VideoOutput instance. Exiting..
>> Unable to initialize video.
>> playCtx, Error: StartDecoderThread() Failed to startdecoder
>> TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching WatchingLiveTV, main) -- end error
>> TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
>>
>> and configure only reports this when I run it for video output support:
>>
>> # Video Output Support
>> x11 support               no
>> OpenGL video              no
>> OpenGL vsync              no
>> DirectFB                  no
>> Fribidi formatting        no
>> MHEG support              yes
>>
>> Shouldn't I see x11 support in there?
>>
>> The video card is a Nvidia 8600GT (which supports VDPAU) but I have tried
>> to compile
>> it with and without VDPAU support and it doesn't make any difference...
>>
>> If I try to compile fixes, configure complains that I need LAME MP3
>> encoder supports
>> (this is no longer needed with trunk?).
>>
>> Lame is installed and there doesn't seem to be anything else I can add
>> (unless I use
>> another repository and in this case it complains about conflicts).
>>
>> This PC used to run trunk before I reinstalled the OS...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Nick,
>
>   Have you followed the Wiki article ?
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora_Core
>
>   This works fine on my install of Fedora 10, make sure you have most of
> the prerequisites that are listed in the Wiki.
>
>   Also have you installed the NVIDIA Linux driver ?
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
>
> Regards
>   
Be sure that  you install the -devel packages of your prerequisites so 
that the compile headers are installed. This is different than the 
actual package and are usually not installed by default.

Without liblame-devel installed you will not be able to get myth to compile.