2009-05-26, 14:46
Hello Mirak,
Congratulations to your PPA and XBMC build! Currently, I'm not aware of any other PPA with the latest vdr 1.7.x packages. On which SVN revision is your XBMC build based?
I also have a PPA where I build XBMC packages that contain the necessary patch for connecting to VDR-streamdev with XBMC (xbmc-svn19616-pvr.patch). The PPA is available here:
https://launchpad.net/~henningpingel/+archive/xbmc
I started this PPA about 4 weeks ago, but since I was a beginner regarding using Launchpad and I wasn't sure about the quality of my builds, I didn't announce it here. After four weeks of building XBMC packages, I think I have gathered some experiences which I would like to share here:
1) Until the code in the unified-pvr-branch will be ready for use, I always use the linuxport branch as a basis for package building. I don't use the code from branch 9.04_Babylon-linux-osx-win32, because of ticket #6466 (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6466): The fix was not fully backported to rhe release branch (yet).
2) The current patch for XBMC made by alwinus can be applied without rejects up until linuxport revision r19955. More recent revisions will only work with manual changes to the patch xbmc-svn19616-pvr.patch. My latest PPA package was build on r19955.
3) r19830 seems to give several users troubles: People end up with a lot of "Channel blocked or encrypted" messages when trying to zap through SD channels. Building without the changes of r19830 helped a lot of people. (http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/19830/branches/linuxport)
More details about the stuff I have summarized above can be found in the German language forum VDR-Portal.de where we now have a section on XBMC since a few weeks: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/board.php?boardid=95
Cheers,
hepi
Congratulations to your PPA and XBMC build! Currently, I'm not aware of any other PPA with the latest vdr 1.7.x packages. On which SVN revision is your XBMC build based?
I also have a PPA where I build XBMC packages that contain the necessary patch for connecting to VDR-streamdev with XBMC (xbmc-svn19616-pvr.patch). The PPA is available here:
https://launchpad.net/~henningpingel/+archive/xbmc
I started this PPA about 4 weeks ago, but since I was a beginner regarding using Launchpad and I wasn't sure about the quality of my builds, I didn't announce it here. After four weeks of building XBMC packages, I think I have gathered some experiences which I would like to share here:
1) Until the code in the unified-pvr-branch will be ready for use, I always use the linuxport branch as a basis for package building. I don't use the code from branch 9.04_Babylon-linux-osx-win32, because of ticket #6466 (http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6466): The fix was not fully backported to rhe release branch (yet).
2) The current patch for XBMC made by alwinus can be applied without rejects up until linuxport revision r19955. More recent revisions will only work with manual changes to the patch xbmc-svn19616-pvr.patch. My latest PPA package was build on r19955.
3) r19830 seems to give several users troubles: People end up with a lot of "Channel blocked or encrypted" messages when trying to zap through SD channels. Building without the changes of r19830 helped a lot of people. (http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/19830/branches/linuxport)
More details about the stuff I have summarized above can be found in the German language forum VDR-Portal.de where we now have a section on XBMC since a few weeks: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/board.php?boardid=95
Cheers,
hepi