[mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers

[Lawrence Rust]

On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 00:20 +0000, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 4:15 PM Chris Weiland <chrisjweiland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > First, thank you SO much for creating this.
> >
> > Second, the configure script doesn't appear to be enabling openmax
> > support.  I'm not sure what's preventing it from finding it.  In past
> > experience, this meant that I needed to install a package from apt, but I
> > should already have everything I need to compile in openmax support since I
> > was developing this as well.
> >
> > Do you know what I might be missing?  I'm trying the 27-fixes branch if
> > that helps.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Peter Bennett <pgbennett at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/17/2015 02:24 PM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> >> > It's been a while since I last posted here but I've kept a watch on
> >> > MythTV development and have seen lots of improvements.
> >> >
> >> > Recently I acquired a few Raspberry Pi2's for a project and thought it
> >> > might be challenging to get one working with Myth using the integrated
> >> > video hardware.  I've noticed a few other users talking about this too.
> >> >
> >> > I've had a Raspberry Pi2 running MythTV 0.27 frontend for about 6 weeks
> >> > now and it feels fairly robust.  It uses the OpenMAX APIs to render
> >> > video using the VideoCore hardware with hardware de-interlacing.  It
> >> > also includes an optional OpenMAX MPEG decoder (£2 license required)
> >> > that provides hardware decoding.  The OSD can either be softblend or EGL
> >> > based OpenGL2.  It also supports visualisation, PiP and PbP.  Audio is
> >> > best served via ALSA and there are 2 patches to make ALSA work nicely on
> >> > a Rpi2
> >> >
> >> > The patches (32 in total) also include an OpenGLES2 based video renderer
> >> > and OpenGL GUI although the GUI (based on Qt 5.4) is still a little
> >> > flaky - the Qt GUI is much more stable.
> >> >
> >> > If anyone would like to try it and provide some feedback then checkout
> >> > the fixes-0.27-rpi2 branch from here:
> >> > http://www.softsystem.co.uk/git/mythtv.git
> >> >
> >> > The server is running on a Rpi2 too so give it some time :-)
> >> >
> >> > Cross build and runtime instructions for a Debian based host are here:
> >> > http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv_for_rpi.txt
> >> >
> >> > A pre-built archive (93MB) is available here:
> >> >
> >> http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythtv-v0.27.5-74-g921a92e-RPI2.tar.bz2
> >> >
> >> > To try this, after downloading on the Rpi, follow the runtime
> >> > instructions in mythtv_for_rpi.txt (above).
> >> >
> >> > If there's a demand I could port the changes to current master too.
> >> >
> >> > Comments and suggestions please.
> >> >
> >> > -- Lawrence Rust
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> This is great news. I currently have two RPI2's running Kodi and the
> >> mythtv pvr plugin - which works but with some problems and restrictions.
> >> The real MythTV frontend would be so much better. I will try it out.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Peter
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> 
> I'd like to know this as well. I've been attempting to get this packaged
> and in a ppa so we can get more testers, but I believe I'll need to
> repackage the openmax libraries first. I've been using the ones packaged by
> the Ubuntu mate team but it installed the libraries in a non-standard
> location

Hi Thomas,

If you are building the packages natively or in a VM then you will need
to manually add the paths in the command line to the configure script.
See my earlier post to Chris Weiland for how to do this.  The
libraspberrypi-dev package installs the OpenMAX libraries & headers
under /opt.  

-- Lawrence Rust