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>   1. Re: Problems with Win32 port script (buzz)
>   2. Re: [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5606: MHEG Update (John)
>   3. Broken osx-packager.pl (David Snider)
>   4. AddAudioData passed incorrect timecode causes stutter    after
>      skip (mythtv)
>   5. Re: Problems with Win32 port script (Torbjörn Jansson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:12:05 +1000
> From: buzz <davidbuzz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Problems with Win32 port script
> To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
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> Thanks all for your feedback...   the issues you are raising are  
> typically
> as a result of the fact that the evelopment version of mythtv is a  
> "moving
> target", so whenever it changes radically , it risks affecting the  
> capacity
> to build it on the win32 platform (because there are very few  
> developers
> developing on the win32 platform).     Thanks for your feedback....  
> I'll see
> if I can answer some of your problems:
>
> 1) getting "errors with the qt-3.3.x-p8 folder" - there is one place  
> in the
> script where it is runs the "make_build.sh" script.  this script  
> tries to
> copy dll's from BOTH qt3, and qt4, which is bad, but because only  
> one of
> these should exist at a time, it's a minor annoyance to see the  
> 'failed'
> messages. The dll's should be copied by the script anyway.
>
> 2) adding a #include <unistd.h> line to schemawizard.cpp file.  I  
> was hoping
> that this would have been fixed by now by someone with -commit  
> access, after
> I identified it over a week ago.
>
> 3) vorbisdecoder.h:34: error: `OggVorbis_File' does not name a  
> type   - I
> can only guess about this once, but it's possible that you don't  
> have the
> OGG or VORBIS libraries properly installed (please review the steps  
> that
> install these libraries), and confirm they are installed as they  
> should be.
> re-install manually if necessary.
>
> 4) slow download speed  - sorry , but I can't help that.    using the
> sourceforge "download" server is actually a dynamic pointer to an  
> arbitrary
> download server that may or may not be the same one each time you ty
> it.      In 99% of cases, it does work.... and there is an option at  
> the top
> of the script to hard-code the specific sourceforge server that you  
> want to
> use, to try to get a quicker one.
>
> 5) maddecoder.cpp:10:17: mad.h: No such file or directory - I've  
> never sen
> this error before, sorry.   perhaps the MAD library didn't install  
> properly?
>
>
> 6) EFFECT FAILED (newer -> shell): mtime of file
> (C:/mythtv/mythplugins/mythmovies/mythmovies/libmythmovies.dll)  
> should be
> greater than file (C:/mythtv/mythtv/last_build.txt).
> [0]  [1218724582]      this error means that the "libmythmovies.dll"  
> file
> does NOT exist (zero mtime), and it should exist, AND be newer than  
> the file
> "last_build.txt".     If the .dll file is missing, then something  
> went wrong
> with the process that builds that, so you have a look at the steps  
> that are
> being taken, and see if you can manually follow the steps that the  
> build
> script was taking at that step, and repeat the problem, or fix  
> it.    :-)
>
>
> Ok, finally.... I'll be playing catchup tomorrow , so will hopefully  
> have a
> newer version that fixes as many of these issues as I encounter....  
> and I'll
> aim to get it posted (if nigel's about) in the next 48 hrs.
>
> Please keep the comments coming about the win32 build, all comments
> welcome!   :-)
>
> Buzz.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Chris H <chndrcks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had a lot of errors pop up where it was trying to copy files from a
>> qt-3.3.x-p8 folder which didn't exist. It seemed to work if I changed
>> that to the qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.0 folder, but I don't know that
>> that is the right solution.
>>
>> Both before and after that change, however, I've run into the
>> following error, and have not yet figured out how to get past it:
>>
>> In file included from main.cpp:26:
>> vorbisdecoder.h:34: error: `OggVorbis_File' does not name a type
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Jay Modi <jaymode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 3.       The script stalls permanently at the
>>>> "qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.0.zip" download?it claims that it's
>> downloading,
>>>> but I see no evidence of it in the network traffic and letting it  
>>>> sit
>> for 1
>>>> hour produced no results. I copied the download path into my  
>>>> browser and
>>>> downloaded the file manually in 10 minutes, so I don't think it a
>> problem
>>>> with my computer in general?the script just doesn't seem to be
>> initializing
>>>> the download process for some reason. I cancelled the script,  
>>>> copied
>>>> qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.0.zip to the source dir and restarted
>>>> win32-packager.pl to continue.
>>>
>>> I have had that issue before and it actually works if you let it sit
>> there
>>> for a long time. I let it sit overnight and it had finished in the
>> morning.
>>> It is rather annoying though when you are watching it.
>>>
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>>
>> --
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:25:51 +0100
> From: John <reidjr at btconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #5606: MHEG Update
> To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> Message-ID: <48A5AE0F.1060203 at btconnect.com>
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> MythTV wrote:
>> #5606: MHEG Update
>> ------------------------------------------------- 
>> +--------------------------
>> Reporter:  David Matthews <dm at prolingua.co.uk>  |       Owner:  ijr
>>     Type:  patch                                |      Status:  new
>> Priority:  minor                                |   Milestone:   
>> unknown
>> Component:  mythtv                               |     Version:  head
>> Severity:  low                                  |     Mlocked:  0
>> ------------------------------------------------- 
>> +--------------------------
>> This patch comprises various bug fixes and a few updates related to  
>> MHEG
>> on Freesat.
>>
>> Bugs fixed include:
>>
>> 1. Fixed problem with text with colour changes (Text.cpp)
>>
>> 2. Removed erroneous Qt prefixes added in the conversion to Qt4
>> (freemheg.h).  Also change QImage constructors to use correct Format
>> argument (mhi.cpp) for Qt4.
>>
>> 3. Fixed problems with gaps between display items due to the OSD  
>> seeming
>> to align items onto even bit boundaries (mhi.cpp)
>>
>> 4. Calculate correct size for video when resizing HD. The BBC have  
>> just
>> started transmitting MHEG on BBC HD and without this fix the  
>> picture may
>> be resized to a quarter of the screen.  Also avoid resizing if the  
>> size
>> hasn't changed (mhi.cpp, mhi.h)
>>
>> 5. Rewrite of DrawPolygon.  This is used to draw direction arrows on
>> Freesat and didn't work properly (mhi.cpp)
>>
>> Added support for Interactible and Slider classes.  Sliders are  
>> used on
>> Freesat for scrollbars to provide feedback when reading multi-page  
>> news
>> items.  (various files in libmythfreemheg).
>>
>> The patch is against SVN head but it's mostly been tested against the
>> fixes branch.
>>
>>
> David,
>
> I'm using -fixes, any chance of a patch against that, as you say you
> have been testing against it.
>
> Also I see that BBC is now running a sports multiscreen, BBCi I guess.
> When I select it I get sent to  the 6th bbci channel, but button  
> presses
> dont let you select. (however you can choose each screen by directly
> moving to the channel (6881 - 6886 by default)
>
> john
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:27:08 -0600
> From: David Snider <dsnider at thesniderpad.com>
> Subject: [mythtv] Broken osx-packager.pl
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <48A5CA7C.3020905 at thesniderpad.com>
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>
> Looks like the osx-packager.pl has an error in it.  Towards the end,
> when the compile is complete, it issues a cp command to move the
> mythfrontend to the current directory.    It's bailing out with the
> following message:
>
> [osx-pkg] cp
> /nobackup/myth/.osx-packager/src/myth-svn/mythtv/programs/ 
> mythfrontend/mythfrontend
> /nobackup/myth/MythFrontend
> cp:
> /nobackup/myth/.osx-packager/src/myth-svn/mythtv/programs/ 
> mythfrontend/mythfrontend:
> No such file or directory
> [osx-pkg] Failed system call: " cp
> /nobackup/myth/.osx-packager/src/myth-svn/mythtv/programs/ 
> mythfrontend/mythfrontend
> /nobackup/myth/MythFrontend " with error code 1
> Died at /tmp/OSX/build/osx-packager.pl line 985.
>
>
> When I look at the directory it appears the directory name is now
> 'mythfrontend.app' instead of 'mythfrontend'
>
> Fri Aug 15 12:24:07 2008
> dsnider at blanc
> /nobackup/myth/.osx-packager/src/myth-svn/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend
> $ ls -l
> total 8120
>
> --snip--
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 dsnider  dsnider     102 Aug 15 11:25 mythfrontend.app/
>
> --snip--
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:26:33 +1000
> From: mythtv <mythtv at modified.cc>
> Subject: [mythtv] AddAudioData passed incorrect timecode causes
>    stutter    after skip
> To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> Message-ID: <48A60299.50207 at modified.cc>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi DEV's,
>
> I'm currently running trunk Revision: 18108 (although I've had this
> problem since using mythtv for HD content) and am experiencing audio  
> and
> video stutter on a certain HD channel.  I am in a PAL area  
> (Australia).
>
> When a skip is performed the timecode passed to
> NuppelVideoPlayer::AddAudioData by avformatdecoder is reset to 0 and
> starts counting up.  This is caused by pkt->pts resetting to 0 and
> counting up.  This causes A/V Divergence to report massively high
> values.  This stutter continues until the timecode is "magically"
> returned to normal values.  The behavior is only bad on one HD channel
> (running 1440x1080) and cannot be replicated on another HD channel
> (running 1280x720).  It can be replicated on a SD channel, but only
> occasionally occurs and corrects itself so quickly that it is very
> difficult to see.
>
> The following code at the end of NuppelVideoPlayer::WarpFactor works
> around the problem at the expense of extended lip sync issues.
>
>     if ((divergence > DIVERGELIMIT) || (divergence < -DIVERGELIMIT)) {
>         divergence = MAXDIVERGE;
>     }
>     return divergence;
>
> At this point I've run out of talent and cannot determine:
>
> a. if pkt->pts is reporting 0 correctly (e.g. if it only gets set to  
> an
> absolute value on a keyframe) ; or
> b. if the code that determines this value has a bug (or indeed which  
> bit
> of the code sets the value...).
>
> If someone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lyall
>
>
> HD Prime
> 2008-08-16 07:39:02.569 A/V timecodes audio 11194847 video 11194987
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 140 avg 35000 tcoffset 0
> 2008-08-16 07:39:02.927 A/V timecodes audio 130 video 11225107
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 11224977 avg 35000 tcoffset 0
> [snip 112 lines]
> 2008-08-16 07:39:07.420 A/V timecodes audio 4621 video 11229547
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 11224926 avg -414994222 tcoffset 0
> 2008-08-16 07:39:07.460 A/V timecodes audio 11229338 video 11229587
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 249 avg -414993972 tcoffset 0
>
> HD WIN
> [no errors]
>
> SD ABC
> 2008-08-16 07:40:59.139 A/V timecodes audio 2580086 video 2580304
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 218 avg 54250 tcoffset 0
> 2008-08-16 07:40:59.339 A/V timecodes audio 10 video 3180464
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 3180454 avg 54500 tcoffset 0
> [snip 3 lines]
> 2008-08-16 07:40:59.498 A/V timecodes audio 170 video 3180624
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 3180454 avg -278628074 tcoffset 0
> 2008-08-16 07:40:59.538 A/V timecodes audio 3180325 video 3180664
> frameinterval 40000 avdel 339 avg -278628324 tcoffset 0
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:14:17 +0200
> From: Torbjörn Jansson <torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Problems with Win32 port script
> To: "'Development of mythtv'" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID:
>    <002f01c8ff80$75f77eb0$61e67c10$@jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se>
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-
>>
>> 1.       When I run MythInstaller.bat, it downloads and executes
>> win32packager.pl, but immediately after pressing [Enter] at the  
>> config
>> summary the script appears to drop back to a command prompt—I say
>> ‘appears’ because no matter what command I give next (even just
>> pressing enter again) will execute win32-packager.pl. Just slightly
>> confusing…
>
>
>> 2.       MySql essentials is now up to version 5.0.67 (vs. 5.0.45 in
>> the script), so the initial download attempt failed. I edited win32-
>> packager.pl to the new version and re-ran win32-packager.pl
>
> I ran into this problem too when i tried to compile the win32 port.
>
> I was trying to build 0.21-fixes by using -b and uncommenting the  
> build
> number for 0.21.
>
> First problem I ran into was with unzip.
> What happened was that it extracted the files on the wrong drive.
> The reason for that is that I had the win32packager.pl script on a  
> different
> drive and the current working directory was on D: instead of C:
>
> So changing drive to C: and then starting the script again made it  
> do the
> right thing.
>
> Next problem was the mysql problem above, installing mysql manually  
> fixed it
> for me.
>
> Then when it came to compilation of qt3 it ran all compilations in  
> parallel
> (make -j or similar) and that resulted in 1000s of files being  
> compiled in
> parallel completely locking my computer for several hour, couldn’t e 
> ven move
> the mouse pointer.
> My computer is a fast one too, 4gb ram and an amd dual core cpu.
>
> then when it came to running mythtv configure it craped out because  
> there is
> no option --runtimeprefix to 0.21-fixes config so I had to remove  
> that part
> from the config command.
>
> Then it went on to successfully build mythtv but I don’t  think the  
> lib
> files ended up in the correct place, all mythtv lib files ended up in
> C:\mythtv\build\bin and when it builds mythplugins it cant link  
> against
> libmythtv-0.21 and there for fail.
>
> That’s as far as I got and I don’t know how to fix that problem.
>
> So to sum it up:
> 1: unzip, script needs to change drive too, not just directory ("cd /d
> some-path" or similar)
> 2: mysl version needs fixing
> 3: qt3 build needs fixing so it doesn’t run 1000s of compilations in
> parallel
> 4: runtimeprefix command doesn’t exist and don’t know what its  
> supposed to
> do
> 5: mythplugins linking error, related to 4?
>
>
>
>
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