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

[Juergen Lock]

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