Placeshifter OS/X

[mwnswiss]

I started to work on the miniclient of V9 open source and wanted to share my findings and ideas:

* create the mini jar library by executing buildmini.sh in the /build/ directory
* from the old placeshifter V6 I just used the sageclient.sh script and removed all JOGL and other support

#!/bin/sh

case $0 in
/*)
   sagepath="$0"
   ;;
*)
   sagepath="$PWD/$0"
   ;;
esac

sagepath=`dirname $sagepath`
echo Changing to SageTV directory $sagepath
cd $sagepath

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
java -cp MiniClient.jar:. sage.miniclient.MiniClient $1 $2 > /dev/null 2>&1

with that you can start the placeshifter and see the usual sagetv menus, however you can't play any videos.

I took the mplayer from homebrew. I will try to change the mini code which starts the mplayer to work with this brew version. See the other thread in the opensource forum on miniclient on linux 64bit which addresses those issues as well.

The first goal would be to get the mplayer from brew working (http://brew.sh/)

[stuckless]

That's good progress. I've been working on migrating to a newer mplayer (for linux, so far), and I've made some progress there. SageTV doesn't work with an out of the box version of mplayer, it has to be modified to add in the communcation layer that can actually request and pull down media files from SageTV.

All of the mplayer stuff, so far, is hosted in a separate github repo, for convenience.

[mwnswiss]

Homebrew makes some modifications of mplayer before compiling on OS/X, so I just need to figure out what gets patched by homebrew and to see the patch from your side and it could work. Will try to find out what the patch includes.

[ProNoob]

I am attempting to build SageTV on OS X as well and have found an issue building ~/sagetv/third_party/mplayer/libvo.

I found vo_macstv.c attempts to #include "vo_macstv_ipc.h" but this header file is not included in the GitHub repository. Interestingly, I did find it and two other files in a .cvsignore file within the same directory.

Links to both files on GitHub are below:
https://github.com/google/sagetv/blo...vo/vo_macstv.c
https://github.com/google/sagetv/blo...bvo/.cvsignore

I found this while attempting to resolve a Makefile error related to a reference to the same header file. The make error output is below:

make[1]: *** No rule to make target `vo_macstv_ipc.defs', needed by `vo_macstv_ipc.h'. Stop.
make: *** [libvo/libvo.a] Error 2
Build failed (mplayer), exiting.

Does anyone know if these three missing files can be made available for OSX builds?
1) vo_macstv_ipc.defs
2) vo_macstv_ipc.h
3) vo_macstv_user.c

[mwnswiss]

Originally Posted by stuckless

All of the mplayer stuff, so far, is hosted in a separate github repo, for convenience.

I took your repository used my OS/X with X11 and homebrew on it, I get an issue with ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a.

If I comment out the libavformat, all the rest compiles, however the linker complains on the end on the missing libavformat objects.

I need to investigate further but actually more as I expected so far.