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Offline bigworm

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XBMC
« on: September 07, 2011, 06:49:05 AM »
I'm very surprised XBMC hasn't already been requested. This is the one major need i have for TCL,
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Offline coreplayer2

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2011, 08:04:00 PM »
Interesting, I hadn't thought of an XBMC extension..   I run my XBMC on a dedicated Windows7 box.    I guess this is worth a shot, because XBMC is the best thing since sliced bread :)
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Offline jur

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2011, 10:24:13 PM »
+1 for XBMC!
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Offline bigworm

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 02:01:39 AM »
I started to compile my own tcz, the number of dependencies is very overwhelming...

I've almost got everything settled, but im blocked on ./configure complaining about missing libXt ?!

checking for ALSA... yes
checking for ENCA... yes
checking for XT... no
configure: error: Could not find a required library. Please see the README for your platform.

I know these libs are available in /usr/local/lib/, and setting XT_LIBS doesnt seem to have an effect...
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Offline meo

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2011, 05:08:26 AM »
Hi bigworm!

Tried XBMC in windows and it really is an awesome application. Began to download the source code but when I saw the size I gave up. I don't have a computer that can handle this size of source code so I didn't even bother trying to compile it. It would be a fantastic extension to have though.

Have fun using TC to the limits,
meo
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Offline curaga

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2011, 05:37:36 AM »
You probably need Xorg-7.5-dev.
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Re: XBMC
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2011, 06:24:02 AM »
the issue with libXt was resolved, i was just missing even more dependencies, xcb.  I had to create my own extentions for libbluray as well as libmicrohttpd

few more hours of dep work i might have something... =]
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Offline robc

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2011, 08:29:23 AM »
I built boxee (based on xbmc) a while back and it was a challenge.  I never submitted it because I was not satisfied with the performance (even on a quad core cpu with dual core gpu).  Though that is probably due to optimizing -Os instead of -O2.
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Offline Arslan S.

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2011, 12:36:20 AM »
i have compiled xbmc from source on a tcl system, but gui does not appear when i run it, also there is no warning or error message
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Re: XBMC
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2011, 02:17:24 AM »
Quote from: Arslan S. on September 17, 2011, 12:36:20 AM
i have compiled xbmc from source on a tcl system, but gui does not appear when i run it, also there is no warning or error message


i dont know which   flags / deps  are needed ? , to build / run , and  tcl release !
 .. any one have this info , to hand
all i have found to go on so far is
 compile_XBMC
 README.linux   

 xbmc-10.1.tar.gz ...
« Last Edit: September 17, 2011, 03:07:49 AM by dubcore »
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Offline paxrex33

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2012, 07:27:58 AM »
Did anyone succeded in running or compiling XBMC...
If it's possible to run it on TinyCore it would be great.
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Offline martin

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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2012, 06:31:45 PM »
I'm interested in this too, so I might give it another go.

edit: ok, I got it configured and compiling now. Wow, this will have a lot of dependencies, almost as much as VLC.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2012, 12:43:56 AM by Martin C »
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Offline paxrex33

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2012, 03:18:30 PM »
Hey Martin  :).
I'm glad to see you are trying to compile XBMC.
I would like to do it but I'm new to linux world (just over a month now :D).
It would be very nice from you if you could write some tutorial for people like me about what you do (of course if you have the time)  ;).
I hope you will succed in making XBMC extension.
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Offline martin

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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2012, 03:30:01 PM »
Hello,
Yes, I succeeded in making the XMBC extension. I ran it and it seems ok. I will do a bit of testing, playing various video and music file formats and what not, and will report back. The .dep and .info files have all been generated, I just need to be completely confident in it first, and might get some members here to do some private testing for me just to be sure it functions right on someone else's system. Any volunteers?

Just be aware of how many extensions it needs. If you are able to comfortably load and run something as extension dependent as VLC, and you have very decent video driver performance (it uses OpenGL and GLX), you should be able to run it fine.

So probably no tutorial needed, just an extension loaded. I need to modify the TCZ so it has a .desktop file after that and it should be done.

Watch this space! :)
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Offline paxrex33

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Re: XBMC
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2012, 06:13:54 AM »
Count me in  :D.
If everything works OK then my new HTPC will be very tiny  ;).
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