[mythtv-users] PPC and MythMusic FIX (at least for mp3s)

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Fri Jan 13 14:08:08 UTC 2006


Ryan Oltman wrote:
> My first contribution back to the opensource community (after using Linux for 
> the last 11 years its about damn time).
>
> Okay after being bugged by mythmusic on not working on a ppc I decided to sit 
> down and figure this thing out.  Especially since there appears to be 2 other 
> people in the world that would love to have a mac-mini frontend to mythtv 
> using linux.
>
> If you don't know the mac mini works fine with mplayer and the 1.2GHz is close 
> to playing 1920x1080 xvid files without too many frame drops, but it would 
> produce noise under mythmusic.
>
> The problem is that libmad returns little endian audio and the powerpc is a 
> big endian machine.  Simply compile minimad.c that comes with libmad on a ppc 
> machine and see that it doesn't work.  You get noise.
>
> I'm using 0.18.1 from gentoo on the mac mini.  The mythmusic plugin code I 
> used for my fixes came from: 
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/
> I used the release-0-18-fixes to compile only mythmusic.
>
> I know vorbis file have the same problem, but I don't use them (I did test 
> one), so I figure there is a similar fix that can be done in that file.
>
> The fix:
>   
You should submit this patch to http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac.  It would be 
most likely to be evaluated if you could regenerate it against SVN.  
Also, a unified diff (diff -u or svn diff) is needed.

Thanks,
Kevin


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