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PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:53 pm 
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Hi,

I am trying to consolidate my TV viewing to one PC. I am currently running 6.04.
The only item I don't know how to move over is an Internet TV stream.

We like to watch "tvpolonia.com" which unfortunately uses Windows Media Player (9 or higher).
They claim that on OSX a VLC Player can be used (http://www.tvpolonia.com/en/help.php).

This is my main media box and I cannot afford to stuff up.
- What would I need to do to get this working?
- Would MythWeb be OK? Or Firefox is needed?

regards,
Myk

PS I am using a Bluetooth keyboard with mouse, so key mappings are not a problem.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:17 pm 
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It looks like you need the current version of Firefox and the VLC player plugin.

For Firefox I just grab the latest tar.gz and unpack it in /usr/local/lib/, rename the firefox directory to include a version number, then add a symlink for /usr/bin/firefox
Code:
[root@black3 ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2011-11-19 15:52 /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/local/lib/firefox-8.0/firefox

I should really create a pacman package for this, but my robotic overlords barely leave me time to eat, sleep and wash these days.

For VLC this is prbably what you want: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-archlinux.html


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:51 am 
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Thanks for the info. It is what I suspected.
I started the process, but there are a lot of dependencies, as well as some conflicts (eg. libjpeg-turbo with libjpeg)

Also, there is an Arch Linux package for the latest Firefox. Should I use this?

I will see how far I get with dependancies...


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:09 am 
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After installling as many packages as possible (with no errors), these are the conflicts for VLC:
Code:
[root@SelfControl LinHES]# pacman -U vlc-1.1.13-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: vlc: requires libmtp
:: vlc: requires v4l-utils
:: vlc: requires xcb-util-keysyms

[root@SelfControl LinHES]# pacman -U libmtp-1.1.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: libmtp: requires libusb-compat

[root@SelfControl LinHES]# pacman -U libusb-compat-0.1.3-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
libusb-compat: /usr/bin/libusb-config exists in filesystem
libusb-compat: /usr/include/usb.h exists in filesystem
libusb-compat: /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4 exists in filesystem
libusb-compat: /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4 exists in filesystem
libusb-compat: /usr/lib/libusb.a exists in filesystem
libusb-compat: /usr/lib/libusb.so exists in filesystem
libusb-compat: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libusb.pc exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

[root@SelfControl LinHES]# pacman -U v4l-utils-0.8.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: v4l-utils: requires libjpeg-turbo

[root@SelfControl LinHES]# pacman -U libjpeg-turbo-1.1.1-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet
error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: libjpeg-turbo: conflicts with libjpeg

[root@SelfControl LinHES]# pacman -U xcb-util-keysyms-0.3.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
xcb-util-keysyms: /usr/include/xcb/xcb_keysyms.h exists in filesystem
xcb-util-keysyms: /usr/lib/libxcb-keysyms.so exists in filesystem
xcb-util-keysyms: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb-keysyms.pc exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@SelfControl LinHES]#


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:45 pm 
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I have been away for a while, so have not proceeded from the above post.

What will be the best way to proceed?
- I checked pacman, and there is Firefox 3.x in the repository. Is it worthwhile getting this instead of version 9.x?
- Can I select an older version of VLC that will avoid the incompatibilities? If so which one?

Thanks for the help.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:52 am 
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mkyrylen wrote:
- I checked pacman, and there is Firefox 3.x in the repository. Is it worthwhile getting this instead of version 9.x?

I strongly recommend using a current version, the one in the repositories is embarrassingly out of date. Especially given the rising importance of web based streaming media to a home entertainment system.

Having upgraded to 9.x since the original reply, there aren't any dependency problems, and you're getting 6+ generations of security fixes (BTW - also strongly recommended, essential security plugins; NoScript, BetterPrivacy, and Cookie Monster.)

The vlc dependencies don't actually look too bad. Without going through the exercise myself the easiest way to resolve them might be to grab source packages from the Arch repository and build them yourself with appropriate tweaks. You can also try submitting an RFE to add the package on the LinHES ticket system.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:04 pm 
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tjc wrote:
mkyrylen wrote:
The vlc dependencies don't actually look too bad. Without going through the exercise myself the easiest way to resolve them might be to grab source packages from the Arch repository and build them yourself with appropriate tweaks. You can also try submitting an RFE to add the package on the LinHES ticket system.


I've personally gone down the road to VLC and while the dependencies don't look bad at first it quickly mushroom out of control when you realize that krb5 has replaced heimdal and VLC requires krb5 to build. This means that everything that requires heimdal (a lot of stuff) needs to be recompiled with krb5. I was able to get krb5 installed, which required rebuilding a ton of packages and removing even more that weren't necessary to build VLC, but I never managed to get VLC compiled on LinHES. I can't remember where exactly I got stuck, hopefully I'll have time to look into it again.

The good news is that krb5 is only required to build VLC, not to install it so if I do get it to build I can share the binary package and nobody else will have to go through the headache!

I tried installing the prebuilt package in the arch repository but it was compiled against a newer kernel version and some things didn't work.

hope this helps save someone else some headaches.

Martian

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