Miro (Democracy) player port is here...

[Chuck Robey]

Kevin Oberman wrote:

Jeeze, please, next person to write on this, please stop being lazy and 
trim some context, this is getting ridiculous!

>> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:35:16 +0100
>> From: Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:21:43PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:01:47 -0600, Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:13:10AM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:20:11 -0600, Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:52:19PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of my friend beg me to create a port of Miro, so I did. ;-)
>>>>>>> Hopeful I have covered all dependencies. There is only a known issue
>>>>>>> is that for some reason it doesn't show thumbnail. Other than
>>>>>>> thumbnail, it downloads, displays video and etc work great. Feel free
>>>>>>> to report bug or whatever under this thread. Have fun.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is Miro?
>>>>>>> =========================================
>>>>>>> Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV
>>>>>>> video player.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WWW: http://www.getmiro.com/
>>>>>>> =========================================
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Get port and install it.
>>>>>>> =========================================
>>>>>>> 	# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/miro.shar
>>>>>>> 	# sh miro.shar
>>>>>>> 	# cd miro ; make install clean
>>>>>>> =========================================
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW: If you already have boost installed, you will have to uninstall
>>>>>>> and install it with WITH_PYTHON or install devel/boost-python. I
>>>>>>> already have requested to the maintainer of boost(-python) to see if
>>>>>>> he can get boost and boost-python unconflict.
>>>>>> Hi Jeremy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the port doesn't build here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ompiling 'unittest/include' template to
>>>>>> /usr/home/lars/dev/ports/multimedia/miro/work/Miro-1.0/resources/../portable/compiled_templates/unittest/include.py
>>>>>> Starting compile of unittest/include
>>>>>> Ending compile
>>>>>> Package config error:
>>>>>> pkg-config --list-all outputted the following error:
>>>>>> Package 'poppler-glib' requires 'poppler = 0.5.91' but version of
>>>>>> poppler is 0.6
>>>>> Are your installed ports up to date? I can't reproduce it here and there is no poppler stuff in miro, so I think it is coming from your 
>>>>> installed ports' *.pc file. Try
>>>>> to run 'pkg-config --list-all' and see which *.pc file that is complaining about poppler stuff.
>>>> Thanks for the hint.
>>>> I re-built all poppler ports and their dependencies and now miro builds
>>>> and runs. :-)
>>> Good. What's version of FreeBSD? Just collect the infos.
>> The version is 8-CURRENT.
>> Meanwhile I found some bugs:
>> I get a lot of messages like this:
>> pid 69765 (convert), uid 1001: exited on signal 11
>>
>> And I can crash miro with a certain .flv file.
>> The error message is:
>> Exception exceptions.KeyboardInterrupt in <module 'threading' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/threading.pyc'> ignored
>>
>> If you like, I can give you the flv.
> 
> There was a problem with ImageMagick a week or two ago that caused most
> (all?) apps to segfault. Make sure ImageMagick is at the latest version
> of the port, 6.3.6-9.