Mythtv SVN

CPAN

As root run. cpan

• hit enter for all the questions until it asked about the PREFIX and change that to the same as the mythtv prefix then continue until you get the the prompt.
• at the prompt enter.

install Date::Parse
install Time::Format
exit

Update Mythtv from SVN

This is to bring your setup to the latest BETA Mythtv Software,

You May Skip This Part.

Also see the page on updating to Latest SVN.

• In order to get the latest updates of mythtv, download and install them from source.

cd /tmp/svn
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/myththemes

Now lets update the system one last time

yum -y update

There are a number of development libraries and packages required to compile MythTV. The following commands should obtain them all.

yum -y install gcc-* freetype-devel lame-devel qt-devel mysql-devel lirc-lib-devel subversion ncftp pulseaudio-libs-devel qt-*
yum -y install mesa-libGLU-devel libXv-devel libXxf86vm-devel libXmu-devel qt-MySQL libXvMC-devel kdelibs-devel

Run the following to get the myth plugin dependencies

yum -y install faad2-devel fftw2 fftw2-devel libid3tag libid3tag-devel  flac-devel libtiff-devel MySQL-python transcode
yum -y install libcdaudio-devel SDL-devel cdparanoia-devel libexif-devel libmad-devel fftw3 fftw3-devel mjpegtools
yum -y install libvorbis libvorbis-devel libvisual libvisual-devel libvisual-plugins taglib taglib-devel dvdauthor

All needed files are:

yum -y install perl-HTML-Tree perl-File-Slurp perl-XML-Parser perl-XML-Twig mx MySQL-python perl-Lingua-Preferred \
dvdauthor perl-TermReadKey perl-Locale-Hebrew perl-XML-Writer perl-Unicode-UTF8simple fftw2 perl-XML-LibXML perl-XMLTV \
xmltv-gui xmltv-grabbers xmltv perl-XML-SAX libcdaudio perl-TimeDate perl-MailTools perl-MIME-Lite perl-SOAP-Lite \
perl-HTTP-Cache-Transparent kakasi perl-Text-Kakasi perl-XML-LibXML-Common perl-Tk-TableMatrix php-cli php php-pdo \
php-mysql perl-DBD-MySQL mysql-server perl-HTML-TableExtract perl-Class-MethodMaker perl-Term-ProgressBar qt-MySQL \
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport perl-IO-stringy transcode perl-WWW-Mechanize perl-Tk perl-DBI perl-DateManip php-common mysql

• update qmake

ln -s /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin/qmake /usr/bin/qmake

• In order to find all the libs run

echo "/usr/local/lib/" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
/sbin/ldconfig

• Remove all the rpm you just installed

rpm -qa | grep myth | xargs rpm -e

• Now reinstall mythlib so yum will keep it updated

yum -y install mythlib

Compile & Install Mythtv

Run the following line by line & look for errors.

cd /tmp/svn/mythtv
make distclean
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-bindings=perl --disable-firewire --disable-dbox2 --disable-hdhomerun \
--enable-xvmc-opengl --enable-xvmc --enable-opengl-vsync
qmake PREFIX=/usr/local mythtv.pro
make
/sbin/service mythbackend stop
make install
cp etc.sysconfig.mythbackend /etc/sysconfig/mythbackend
cp etc.rc.d.init.d.mythbackend /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend
chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend
echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
/sbin/service mythbackend start

Compile & Install MythPlugins

cd /tmp/svn/mythplugins
make distclean
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-faad --enable-aac --disable-mythbrowser --disable-mythflix \
--disable-mythgallery --disable-mythgame --disable-mythnews --disable-mythphone --disable-mythweather \
--zm-version=1.22.3
qmake PREFIX=/usr/local mythplugins.pro
make
make install
rm -rf /var/www/html/mythweb
cp -r mythweb /var/www/html/
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/mythweb

Compile & Install MythThemes

cd /tmp/svn/myththemes
make distclean
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Configuring Mythtv

In order for mythbackend to create a pid file when the daemon is started you will need to change /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend and add some lines

vim /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend

• change the user to mythtv
• change the log file to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
• add -p /var/run/mythbacken.pid to the end of the daemon command.

Once you have saved the file then.

• create & setup the log directory

mkdir -p /var/log/mythtv
chown mythtv:mythtv /var/log/mythtv

• setup the run directory

chmod 777 /var/run/

• setup the /dev/video files

chown mythtv:mythtv /dev/vid*

• get mythbackend to start when the system starts

/sbin/chkconfig mythbackend on
/sbin/service mythbackend restart