Mythtv for EL6?

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm working on getting MythTV packages built for EL6 and wanted to
>> share my plan in case someone has a better idea.
>
> I tried this during the summer, and while I was able to branch and
> push several deps in EPEL, I didn't get it all the way to completion:
> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2011-July/009921.html
>
> All the same, I'm interested in the effort and I'd like to assist.
>
>>                -> ffmpeg
>>                        -> libvpx
>>                        -> x264
>
> The ffmpeg / libvpx thing is going to be tricky, because several
> rpmfusion devs want to stabilize on a modern ffmpeg for EL 6, but this
> requires a newer libvpx. See:
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250
> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2011-October/010412.html

Strange... When I tried to build I'm pretty sure I got an error saying
libvpx was unavailable, not too old. I pulled all my SRPMS from
current F15 and they all built fine.


> I haven't tried lobbying the RH maintainer (I guess it would be Spot?)
> for a newer libvpx. And even if it got incremented, I imagine it would
> be in RHEL 6.3, which will take a while for that to trickle down
> through to CentOS :)

I didn't look into any of the SRPMS, just tried to rebuild them. I
wonder if it would be simpler to disable vpx in ffmpeg? Is there
anything in Myth that requires it? Or do we just loose a playback
codec?


>> The good news is that all the packages rebuilt without modification so
>> there should be minimal work on the maintainers end.
>
> I had to patch MythTV's weather plugin because RHEL 6 has a
> perl-Date-Manip that is too old. Upstream didn't take the patch
> (http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9921) but there's nothing keeping
> us from using the patch in RPM Fusion.

I haven't tried installing it yet as for the first step I was only
trying to get it to build. I don't have a CentOS 6 box handy so I
guess I'll have to install one in VirtualBox.

Richard