[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: vdr-mhp-0.2

[Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>]

Am Montag, 20. September 2004 23:53 schrieb Laz:
> On Monday 20 Sep 2004 22:31, Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > Am Montag, 20. September 2004 21:35 schrieb Laz:
>
> {snippage}
>
> > > Checking my version of avcodec.h, the only define I have like that is
> > > FF_ASPECT_EXTENDED, and "aspect-ratio" is now "sample_aspect_ratio"! I
> > > think the aspect ratios of 0.4.8 have been replaced by things like
> > > FF_DTG_AFD_4_3
> > >
> > > I'll see if I can get anywhere with this...
> >
> > The problem with FFMpeg is that the API changes constantly, and is
> > completely undocumented. So lets guess what these defines mean. The only
> > reliable source of information is the source of ffmpeg.c.
>
> Yep: it's a right pain!
>
> After bodging the aspect ratio to be fixed at 16:9, applying patches
> supplied elsewhere in this thread, and changing all of the gettext calls in
> libdvbsi/object.c to include sizes, (got lots of Makefile type dependency
> errors for jhi.h (I think...), I eventually got it to compile fully.

Yes, there is now also (preliminarily) complete patch available from

http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=22581&page=2

put together by Andreas Brachold and others ("mhp-0.2.diff.gz").

>
> When I try to run vdr with this plugin, it throws up lots of DirectFB, ends
> with "Creating database" and then just sits there.
>
> This is with vdr-1.3.12, dxr3-0.2.3-pre2, ffmpeg-0.4.9.

Don't you see applications listed in the plugin's menu?

>
> Any clues?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Laz