XBMC

[indridi]

Hi Martin,

I would love to try it out. Have been running XBMC on Ubuntu, Mac OS, Windows and has also been experimenting with OpenElec.

Regards,
Indridi

[martin]

Ok, it plays video fine, just remember, I highly recommend an accelerated driver, otherwise the interface will be very, very slow. I used nvidia-glx (fast enough) and Xorg-7.6-3d (very slow). XVesa was not tried.

I will PM those who showed an interest a URL where they can download it. I wont list it here in case it is deemed advertising.

Once I get your feedback, I will properly submit it to the TCL repository.

[Rich]

Hi Martin C

I wont list it here in case it is deemed advertising.

Actually, it's against forum policy to post binaries, so PMing a URL is the right way to go.

[martin]

Actually, it's against forum policy to post binaries, so PMing a URL is the right way to go.

Oh no, I wasn't going to post the binary itself, just the links, but they contain commercial interest, so I wanted to play it safe.

[gerald_clark]

Do not post links to sites that have any commercial content.

[martin]

I know, I haven't.

[gerald_clark]

Ok, I just don't want anybody to get into well intentioned trouble.

[martin]

Ok, getting some good feedback on it.

The only thing before getting the initial feedback that I had discovered was that the mysql extension places files in a non-standard place, so I created a tce.installed script to make a symlink to correct this.

Besides an obscure GLXDrawable error the first time it is run (it runs fine after that), everything seems to be ok. I have updated a file that I overlooked and will get updated feedback.

Once that goes well, I will then submit it properly. Anyone else wanting to test it should privately message me.

[coreplayer2]

Honestly a lot of work has gone into this extension, thanks Martin.      But am banging my head on one wall after another here.

This extension is perfect for a scm 


The current stumbling block for me is "error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.18: cannot open...  no such file or directory"

been working on this project for so many hours with no break though, but it's 3am and time for zzzzz's  will take another look at this in the am.

[martin]

hmm... seems that the extension install script isn't running, I'll find out why.

To solve the mysql problem, "sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysqlclient.so.18 /usr/local/lib/" or something very, very similar.

The mysql libraries install in a non-standard location, so I made a tce.installed script to fix this, but for some reason it isn't running after loading XBMC. Maybe I forgot a chmod +x or something.

[coreplayer2]

I was looking at the script..  but it's late and thing are beginning to blur lol

File is located in /usr/local/mysql/lib/

Ok  the command is  "sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 /usr/local/lib/"

[martin]

I was looking at the script..  but it's late and thing are beginning to blur lol

File is located in /usr/local/mysql/lib/

yes, that's right. you need to link it in /usr/local/lib/ so xbmc can see it. The command I gave above should do it.

[coreplayer2]

yes the command was close, thanks I got it now.

[coreplayer2]

Alsa continues to crash at first start-up, second time is ok..

[martin]

See, that's interesting. me and another member here have seen it crash at first startup, complaining about GLXEnableDrawable, then after that it's fine, but I haven't seen any alsa crash from it, and all my sound is delivered via alsa.

This is why I wanted testing