[mythtv-users] MythSqueezeBox RPMs and DEB files

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 02:55:30 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Brent Norris <brent at brentnorris.net> wrote:
>> George Galt wrote:
>>> For anyone interested in trying out the MythSqueezeBox plugin (which
>>> emulates a Squeezebox player in MythTV and allows you to stream music
>>> from a SqueezeCenter server), I've added a few RPMs (for Fedora 8
>>> x86_64, CentOS5 x86_64 and Fedora 10 i386) as well as a source RPM and
>>> a DEB file to the files on Sourceforge:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythsqueezebox/
>>>
>>> The latest code fixes a bug that was causing the plugin to freeze when
>>> it couldn't find a SqueezeCenter server.  Please send any comments,
>>> ideas, criticisms, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Francois Banville for providing the DEB file and to Dennis
>>> Hand who built the RPM and source RPM files.
>>>
>>> If you need more information on the SqueezeCenter server (an open
>>> source music server), go to:
>>> http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html.  They also have a YUM
>>> repository at: http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/
>>>
>>> George
>>
>> OK here is what I get when I try to run it:
>>
>>
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.773 MythPlugin::init() dlerror: /usr/lib64/mythtv/plugins/liblibmythsqueezebox.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCL
>>> ASS32
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.773 Unable to initialize plugin 'libmythsqueezebox'.
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.883 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.929 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.935 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATA'
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.947 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus -dev=ATAPI'
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:20.976 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:21.033 NetworkControl: Listening for remote connections on port 6546
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:21.034 No theme dir: /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv/themes/metallurgy
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:21.915 Using NV NPOT texture extension
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:25.149 MythThemedMenuPrivate: Unknown tag depend in button
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.344 XMLParse::LoadTheme using /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/mythsqueezebox-ui.xml
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.369 Unable to find image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/metallurgy/msb_slimdisplay_background.png
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.369 UIImageType::LoadImage() - Cannot find image: msb_slimdisplay_background.png
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.369 Unable to find image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/metallurgy/msb_track_info_background.png
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.369 UIImageType::LoadImage() - Cannot find image: msb_track_info_background.png
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.370 Unable to find image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/metallurgy/msb_cover_border.png
>>> 2008-12-04 17:06:26.370 UIImageType::LoadImage() - Cannot find image: msb_cover_border.png
>>
>> this was just from installing the FC8 rpm (having to cludge a little
>> because it wants libportaudio.so and all yum can find is
>> libportaudio.so.2 so I symlinked).  After this mythfrontend just dies.
>>
>> Brent
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>
> Brent:
>
> Yes, it needs portaudio version 18 (you can get it from Axel's
> repository).  Fedora provides version 19 of this file, and version 19
> is -- of course -- not backward compatible.  I put the line
> "exclude=portaudio" at the end of my Fedora repository so that it
> doesn't upgrade to version 19 and I install version 18 from Axel's
> repo.  Long term, I'd like to get rid of the reliance on portaudio,
> but it won't happen soon.
>
> The failure to find the images is due to the fact that I believe it
> only copies these into the default theme directory.  You may need to
> manually move them to your theme's directory.
>
> George

It needs portaudio? Bummer, my mythbuntu system  doesn't use portaudio
and given other comments I have seen about portaudio i don't want it!


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