[mythtv-users] Trying to compile MythTV from source (and VDPAU support in particular)

[Harry Orenstein]

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:25 +0400, Andrey Zhunev wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am using MythTV + Fedora for several years now. It's the best
> HTPC solution I saw so far and I really appreciate the work of
> developers and community to make it even better.
> 
> Recently I decided to try CentOS 6 as a new OS for my home server
> (which is at the same time a mythbackend and a mythfrontend in one
> of the 2 rooms). I set up a test machine for that, so I'm free to test
> the "bleeding edge" of MythTV development. Therefore, I want to try
> compiling MythTV myself. It's my first try and I'm not very
> experienced in Linux, so I have more questions than answers. I read
> some online guides, but most of them are outdated (written for older
> versions of MythTV). 
> 
> At this step I'm mostly missing the "proper" configure parameters that
> I need to put in order to get MythTV that is close to what I'm used to
> (from Fedora's RPMFusion repositories). I read the 'configure
> --help', but it's still not obvious what I need, exactly.
> 
> So I would appreciate if you could point me to an up to date guide to
> compile MythTV from source.
> 
> 
> One particular question, though. I tried to add VDPAU support, but it
> seems I can't. Despite '--enable-vdpau' parameter, the 'configure' returns:
> 
> "VDPAU support: no"
> 
> I have NVidia drivers (from atrpms) installed. I don't have
> VDPAU-capable video adapter installed at the moment (using built-in
> Intel video), may this be a problem?
> 
> 
It's not for lack of the hardware.  Do you have the proper -devel
packages installed?  I don't use VDPAU, but if you're not sure which
packages you need check the configure script (search for vdpau and it
should be easy to see which packages are required).

HTH!


-- Harry O.