2009-12-30, 21:53
TeknoJnky Wrote:are there plans for an official/supported 'crystal hd for dummies' type script or installer, and if so which platform(s) might/will become available soonest?
and if not, now that scott/team/broadcom has made hd decoding 'easy', perhaps now its time to look at providing making it 'easy' for the n00bs and neophytes to actually get it up and running with minimal fuss?
I'd imagine when everything is ready to go that will happen. Right now that keeps those of us willing to go through the extra hurdles a little special .
If you read through this thread you will find some how to guides and so forth...
If you download the source from broadcom http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/
unzip it in your home directory.
run 'dos2unix crystalhd/driver/linux/* crystalhd/linux_lib/libcrystalhd/* crystalhd/include/* crystalhd/include/link/*' from your home directory
Download davilla's patch posted a page or two ago. Put it in your home directory and type 'patch -p0 < patchfilename'
Follow his instructions for compiling it (adding ./configure after autoconf).
THEN compile the SVN source (instructions are in the WIKI) and add --enable-crystalhd to the ./configure run. Install it and you should be good to go.
Sure it takes a little more work since to compile XBMC you need to install a bunch of dependencies, but they are all spelled out pretty cleanly in the source code itself (README.ubuntu file)for compiling on ubuntu 8.04.