xbmc-pvr-addons: on the way to xbmc pvr

[Juergen Lock]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:29:21AM +0200, Mickaël Maillot wrote:
> Good jobs guys ! i happy to see PVR working on FreeBSD.
> do you want me to send patch upstream ?
> and i can commit on github xbmc/xbmc.
> 
Yes please! :)  (tho technically I can only speak for my
vdr-plugin-vnsiserver patches that should all go in except for the
patch-Makefile, decke will have to say about his patches.)

 Thanx you,
	Juergen (and decke probably too.)
> 
> 
> 
> 2013/8/18 Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 05:45:26PM +0200, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> > wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:23:50AM +0200, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> > > >> Hi guys,
> > > > Hi!
> > > >>
> > > >> now that we have xbmc 12.2 and tvheadend in the portstree the next
> > > >> step to a proper PVR solution running on FreeBSD is to add the xbmc
> > > >> pvr addons that allow to use various backends like tvheadend.
> > > >>
> > > >> I have already created a port for the pvr addons that builds and
> > > >> installs just fine but for some reason xbmc doesn't like them and
> > > >> doesn't even display them in the GUI or any errors in the logfile.
> > > >>
> > > >> To try out the xbmc-pvr-addons port:
> > > >> svn co https://svn.redports.org/decke/multimedia/xbmc-addon-pvr
> > > >>
> > > >> It should build and install fine but it doesn't seem to have any
> > > >> effect on xbmc. You can also build ZIP packages for the addons that
> > > >> you can try to install via the Addon manager.
> > > >>
> > > >> Build zip addons:
> > > >> cd xbmc-addon-pvr && make && cd work/xbmc-pvr-addons-12.0-Frodo &&
> > make zip
> > > >>
> > > >> Install ZIP addons:
> > > >>
> > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on_manager#How_to_install_from_a_ZIP_file
> > > >>
> > > >> With the ZIP files I always get "Add-on does not have the correct
> > > >> structure" immediately. No log message that tells why it's
> > > >> complaining.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> There was one error in the logfile with stock multimedia/xbmc 12.2
> > > >> that I fixed on the way:
> > > >> ERROR: PVR - CreateTables - failed to get add-ons from the add-on
> > manager
> > > >>
> > > >> I fixed it with the following patch that I also needed for
> > xbmc-pvr-addons.
> > > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/patches/xbmc-12.2_1-addon-fix.diff
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> So we are pretty close to a working xbmc pvr because the requires
> > > >> parts are all there already. We have an up-to-date xbmc 12.2 in the
> > > >> tree. tvheadend with FreeBSD support from latest git is also available
> > > >> in multimedia/tvheadend and works fine with webcamd devices. The
> > > >> xbmc-pvr-addons port is also there already. All that is left is
> > > >> getting that parts working in combination.
> > > >>
> > > >> I hope someone has an idea what is going on there or how to fix that.
> > :o)
> > > >>
> > > >  I finally got around looking at this and turns out the fix is really
> > > > simple if you know it:  xbmc seems to look for
> > <platform>linux</platform>
> > > > in the addon.xml files not freebsd.  I added back freebsd too in
> > > > case this gets fixed later tho.  (first post-patch REINPLACE_CMD.)
> > > >
> > > > Index: Makefile
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- Makefile    (revision 15743)
> > > > +++ Makefile    (working copy)
> > > > @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
> > > >  BUILD_DEPENDS+=        xbmc:${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/xbmc
> > > >  RUN_DEPENDS+=  xbmc:${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/xbmc
> > > >
> > > > -PATCH_ARGS=    --suffix ""
> > > >  USE_GL=                gl
> > > >  USE_AUTOTOOLS= libtoolize aclocal libtool automake autoconf
> > > >  MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=        yes
> > > > @@ -29,8 +28,10 @@
> > > >  .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
> > > >
> > > >  post-patch:
> > > > +       @${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|@OS@|freebsd linux|' \
> > > > +               ${WRKSRC}/addons/*/addon/addon.xml.in
> > > >         @${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|-ldl||' \
> > > >                 ${WRKSRC}/addons/pvr.hts/Makefile.am
> > > > -       @${RM} ${WRKSRC}/addons/*/*.orig
> > > > +       @${RM} ${WRKSRC}/addons/*/*/*.orig
> > > >
> > > >  .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
> > > >
> > > >  HTH, :)
> > > >         Juergen
> > >
> > > Runtime testing showed that it works very nice now so I fixed a few
> > > small things in the port and committed it as multimedia/xbmc-addon-pvr.
> > >
> > > So far I have only tested the pvr.hts plugin but there are many more to
> > > test so feedback is welcome! :o)
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > And I just committed the updated multimedia/vdr-plugin-vnsiserver
> > to work with the pvr.vdr.vnsi addon from your port.
> >
> >  Thanx to you for working on this also, :)
> >         Juergen
> >