[quickFuse]

How I built and installed this on Ubuntu 12.04

First I downloaded Precise Pangolin, I used the PC (Intel x86) desktop CD http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/. I used Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from the above ISO. Then I booted the USB drive and performed a new install taking the option to install any package updates.

Once installed the first thing I did was install binary drivers for my graphics card (AMD A8-3850 with ATI Radeon HD 6550D graphics in my case) using the provided Ubuntu wizard. A notification window basically pops up prompting you to do this when you first login.

Now I installed mythtv and other build dependencies as documented in earlier posts and from README.ubuntu in the source and started the build process:

Code:

# Note this installs MythTV 0.25 +fixes on this version of Ubuntu.
apt-get install mythtv

# Note a few of these get replaced, use -s to check which
apt-get install git git-core make g++ gcc gawk pmount libtool nasm yasm automake cmake gperf zip unzip bison libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libfribidi-dev liblzo2-dev libfreetype6-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libasound-dev python-sqlite libglew-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libmad0-dev libogg-dev libvorbisenc2 libsmbclient-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcre3-dev libdbus-1-dev libhal-dev libhal-storage-dev libjasper-dev libfontconfig-dev libbz2-dev libboost-dev libenca-dev libxt-dev libxmu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libpulse-dev mesa-utils libcdio-dev libsamplerate-dev libmpeg3-dev libflac-dev libiso9660-dev libass-dev libssl-dev fp-compiler gdc libmpeg2-4-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libmodplug-dev libssh-dev gettext cvs python-dev libyajl-dev libboost-thread-dev libplist-dev autopoint

# As noted in the first post of this thread
apt-get install libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-dev

# Download the sources
git clone https://github.com/tsp/xbmc.git
cd xbmc
git checkout Eden-pvr

# Start the build process
./bootstrap
./configure
make

As noted above there's still a typo in the source (at least in my checkout of the code from a few mins ago) in tools.h at line 119. You can fix that with this patch:

Code:

--- tools.h.orig        2012-05-27 11:42:20.697377134 -0400
+++ tools.h     2012-05-27 11:42:41.144778174 -0400
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
   {
     if (mutex && locked)
     {
-      Mutex->Unlock();
+      mutex->Unlock();
       locked = false;
       return true;
     }

Also as noted above there are 3 compile errors in fileOps.cpp from calls to XBMC->Log. I basically just commented them out, or rather hacked them to compile. Not sure what the proper fix is.

Then I did make install and tested out the software. I had some pretty cool results. For comparison, I've been using MythBox on XBMCbuntu 11.10 for some time, and wanted to try this PVR branch instead and also get mythtv-0.25 in the process. I'm using OTA for reception with an HVR-2250 tuner and I was very surprised to see the results of the first channel scan bring in another 6 channels than I usually get! I was then even more pleased after installing the new Aeon Nox 3 skin, which has the Live TV menu there. Awesome! Seemed like it was time to upgrade....

Unfortunately I've had to since image this HTPC back to the XBMCbuntu 11.10 install for now, as changing channels is just unbearably slow. Like 10 seconds or maybe even more. Too frustrating. There seems to be some other stability issues as well but I don't have anything specific in terms of logging or debugging to provide. MythBox is a little slow to change channels but it's at least pretty stable.

I took an image just before reverting back, so I can re-image back to the 12.04 install sometime and update, rebuild and experiment some more. It was fun to test it out, and Thanks again to everybody putting in their efforts. Looking forward to some improvements allowing for a stable transition, it just feels a lot tighter than the MythBox thing.