Hi all, Has anyone gotten mythdroid http://code.google.com/p/mythdroid/ working? I am currently running 7.1 and have most everything working on mythdroid (.e.g. I can get scheduling, see previously recorded etc.) but can't seem to get playback working. It appears there is a perl program called MDD that needs to be installed on the frontend/backend. It requires Image::imlib2. I have looked for it in the repository with pacman -Qu image-imlib2 and am not getting anything. I am not very good with arch so is there a different way to get this perl module?

DoTheDog

Ok, so it looks like perl has the ability to build its own dependenies. There were a couple of odd things. I had to:
1. sudo pacman -Sy perl-cpanplus
2. in the mdd directory. ./Build clean
3. perl Build.PL
4. ./Build installdeps --cpan_client '/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/bin/cpanp -i'
(If I didn't put the path in there, I would get the error: cpan_client 'cpan' is not executable)
5. I'm still missing X::Osd bu it is optional
6. ./Build test (no errors)
7. sudo ./Build install

I'll update this if I get it working all the way.

DoTheDog

Did you get this working? I discovered MythDroid today and fancied a play but checked here first and found your post.

I played around with this over the break. MDD is a custom program for MythDroid therefore you aren't going to find packages just floating around out there (not even for Arch), however there is a PKGBUILD file for it on the Arch AUR that can be built and installed once you resolve several dependencies. If I get some more time I'll re-install LinHES 7.1 in a Virtual Machine and try to put together a list of what packages are needed and perhaps upload the packages I built. (the backend version was fairly straightforward to get installed however the frontend version had a few extra dependencies that were a royal pain)

All that said, if your goal is to be able to watch recordings and videos on you Android device then things will become MUCH more difficult. In order to stream to your Android device VLC must be installed on your LinHES box. There is presently no version of VLC in the LinHES repositories. I made an attempt at building an installable VLC package for LinHES 7.1 but quickly end in a dependency nightmare! I may look into VLC further later on but I suspect the devs (who are much smarter than I am when it comes to this stuff) will have VLC in the repositories soon enough.

NOTE: I was able to install the pre-build VLC package from the Arch package database however it did not work. I'm guessing it was compiled against a newer kernel and/or newer libraries than what LinHES 7.1 uses and thus there are lots of errors.

Martian

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Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)

I use Mythmote and mythweb already does this app bring any additional functionality to the table?

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It has similar functionality to Mythmote but adds interactive onscreen display (similar to mythweb).

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Vizio 37" LCD HDTV (1080p)

If someone could provide a list of packages I would consider adding them.

Not for sure about VLC, as with myth .25 (whenever it's released) VLC should no longer be needed.

I apologize if this is stating the obvious:

mdd has multiple functions. It apparently enhances the effectiveness of the remote functions, but the feature that I am most interested in is streaming.

My understanding is that mythdroid on the android phone contacts mdd on the backend and mdd calls vlc to handle the streaming. If that would work, you could watch shows on the backend from any android tablet or phone, without having to transcode and transfer.

http://code.google.com/p/mythdroid/wiki/StreamingGuide

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