[mythtv-users] MythNetvision troubleshooting

[Anthony Giggins]

> I've got some of this set of items working:
> firefox-3.5.9-2.fc12.x86_64
> flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-1.x86_64
> mythtv-0.23-1.fc12.x86_64
>
> I built the system using cobbler on an Acer Revo 3610, so it's not a
> totally standard distro, but I am assiduous in sticking to as few
> repos as possible as it can be hard working with the dependencies
> otherwise. That said, I'd rather use yum than diy build, just to keep
> the process consistent as I install/uninstall, so that flash plugin
> came from this repo:
>
> [tim at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo
> [flash]
> name=flash
> baseurl=http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-leigh123linux
>
> I found that file somewhere...
>
> fwiw, I've had to rip out pulseaudio from f12 to get hdmi sound
> working, which means that, until I can get it back in again, I cannot
> run both mythtv and firefox for eg BBC iPlayer content. It's also a
> bit annoying that the flash plugin is too cpu hungry to deliver
> sensibly sized iPlayer pictures.
>
> I've not thrashed the browser, so it could still crash on some sites -
> I think that you probably need to be more precise about when it
> crashes with the plugin.
>
> Tim

Thanks Tim,

That repo works but I also had to symlink
/home/mythtv/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Cheers,

Anthony