xbmc pvr in ports; update, please test with MythTV too! :)

[Juergen Lock]

Now updated the patch to release 57:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/xbmc-pvr-ppa-odk57.patch

I hope I can commit this and the vdr xvdr addon/plugin ports soon. :)

	Juergen

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 07:02:00PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:58:34PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> > > On 12.12.2011 13:26, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> > > > On 05.12.2011 19:56, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > > >> I just updated to the latest release pvr-ppa-odk56:
> > > >>
> > > >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/xbmc-pvr-ppa-odk56.patch
> > > >>
> > > >>  It would be nice if someone could verify this works with mythtv too
> > > >> before I commit it...
> > > >
> > > > First thing I noticed was that XBMC_Mythtv.pvr should really be
> > > > XBMC_MythTV.pvr because it complains in the logfile when loading the
> > > > addon:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: ADDON: Could not locate XBMC_MythTV.pvr
> > > >
> > > > Moving the file to 
> > > > /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons/pvr.mythtv/XBMC_MythTV.pvr
> > > > gets it a step further.
> > > >
> > > > Next thing is an undefined symbol:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: Unable to load 
> > > > /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons/pvr.mythtv/XBMC_MythTV.pvr,
> > > > reason: /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons/pvr.mythtv/XBMC_MythTV.pvr: 
> > > > Undefined
> > > > symbol "_ZTI14MythXmlCommand"
> > > >
> > > > It looks like this is part of libmythxml but It was not linked to the
> > > > shared object. While searching for that problem I found the following
> > > > commit which includes a hunk for xbmc/pvrclients/mythtv/Makefile.in 
> > > > and
> > > > looks pretty right in what it does. But it's quite different code 
> > > > than
> > > > what you have in your port. Are you sure you aren't using an old 
> > > > branch
> > > > for the PVR code?
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > http://xbmc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xbmc/xbmc;a=patch;h=7e83f17
> > > >
> > > > Both problems fixed with the attached patch.
> > > >
> > > > Now getting to the next undefined symbol:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: Unable to load
> > > > /usr/local/lib/xbmc/addons/pvr.mythtv/XBMC_MythTV.pvr, reason:
> > > > /usr/local/lib/xbmc/add
> > > > ons/pvr.mythtv/XBMC_MythTV.pvr: Undefined symbol "GetChannelsAmount"
> > > 
> > > I got the plugin load correctly now with another patch that is 
> > > attached. After
> > > setting the PIN in mythtv-setup it also connects fine to the backend 
> > > now but
> > > I cannot import any channels into xbmc so I cannot even test watching 
> > > TV.
> > > 
> > > It feels a lot like the code is unfinished or unmaintained and not 
> > > expected
> > > to work with mythtv 0.24. The future also doesn't look good because I 
> > > found
> > > in the MythTV wiki (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:MythXML):
> > > 
> > > The MythXML interface has been rewritten for upcoming 0.25, and these 
> > > methods
> > > will no longer be valid.
> > > 
> > > So the xbmc pvr plugin for mythtv is kind of useless.
> > 
> > Hm yeah as I posted on Saturday when Torfinn Ingolfsen did a first
> > test (I think I even Cc'd you):
> > 
> > Bad news:  I asked on the xbmc-pvr channel and was told this mythtv
> > addon hasn't been maintained for months i.e. it apparently bitrotted.
> > There is a new one using libcmyth mentioned here:
> > 
> > 	http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=110694
> > 
> > only the git repo linked,
> > 
> > 	https://github.com/tsp/xbmc
> > 
> > is a fork of the entire opdenkamp xbmc pvr, so I guess I'll leave
> > porting that to someone that actually uses mythtv i.e. not me...
> > 
> >  Sorry, :(
> >         Juergen
> 
> And thanx for your testing effort! :)  even if it didn't help...
> 
> 	Juergen