[mythtv-users] MythSqueezeBox Plugin

[George Galt]

Shawn:

Squeezeslave is headless so it has to be controlled through the web
interface, so it doesn't really work for an HTPC.

I'm not really familiar with building something like this on Gentoo
that has mythtv installed through ebuilds.  I know that in
Fedora/CentOS (if you are using Axel's packages), you can simply
install the mythtv-devel package, then download the source for **all**
of the plugins from the Mythtv site, extract the mythsqueezebox file
into the mythplugins-0.21 directory, run ./configure in the
mythplugins-0.21 directory just as if you were going to build them
from source, but don't compile or install, you are just getting the
configure files built.  Then do a qmake, make and make install in the
mythsqueezebox directory.

Perhaps there is a similar ebuild package to Axel's mythtv-devel
package for Fedora/CentOS.  Sorry, someone more familiar with Gentoo
will probably have to help.

George

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:11 PM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've made a stab at getting a squeezecenter client working as a mythtv
>  >  plugin since this seems to be a common request.  This plugin is
>  >  largely based on the work of Richard Titmuss (and others) on
>  >  squeezeslave.  It works for me, but it is not pretty!!  There are a
>  >  number of issues outlined in the readme file.
>
>  That looks pretty cool!  But I didn't know about squeezeslave yet either.
>
>  It would be interesting if MythTV supported "widgets" or "portal"
>  screens that contain multiple plugins, wouldn't it?  (like weather,
>  music, RSS and upcoming recordings all on one screen, for example, or
>  even pop-up overlays on live TV)  This is a good example, because the
>  SqueezeBox display you are emulating doesn't take a lot of space, but
>  a myth plugin has to be full-screen, right?
>
>  What's the quickest way to compile new plugins like this on Gentoo
>  BTW?  I usually stick to ones that already have ebuilds, but I really
>  want to try your squeezecenter.
>
>
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