Hi,<br><br>I am installing MythTV 0.20 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy, Server
Edition, compiling from source with DVR support disabled. I don't have
TV Tuner card currently installed and intend to used MythTV for now as
a front end to play DVDs, Movies, Music as well as try using the
picture gallery.
<br><br>After some trial & errors I finally managed to install
MythTV as a combined frontend/backend from source. All installation was
done as a root. I got mythtv files under /usr/share/mythtv directory
and Frontend seems to be starting up and running (again, as root).
<br><br>My problem is that after installing MythTV plugins (again,
compiling from the source as root), I can't access any of them from the
MythTV interface. I did get the library files output to
/usr/share/mythtv/plugins:
<br><br>----------------<br>vlad@eagle:~$ ls -lFa /usr/share/mythtv/plugins/<br>total 7188<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-15 01:00 ./<br>drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2007-04-15 21:21 ../<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 198756 2007-04-15 00:54
libmythcontrols.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 327840 2007-04-15 00:55 libmythdvd.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1780786 2007-04-15 00:55 libmythflix.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 578844 2007-04-15 00:56 libmythgallery.so*
<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 613512 2007-04-15 00:57 libmythgame.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1305877 2007-04-15 00:57 libmythnews.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1120260 2007-04-15 00:58 libmythphone.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1181704 2007-04-15 01:00
libmythvideo.so*<br>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189732 2007-04-15 01:00 libmythweather.so*<br>---------------<br><br>and
library.xml and mainmenu.xml files from /usr/share/mythtv directory
seemed to be fetched and read by MythTV correctly (tried to modify text
for 'Watch TV' button and saw the changed in the interface). The
problem is none of the 'plugin' items from library.xml file is
displayed in the interface, so I can't access 'TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS',
but not 'VIDEO_BROWSER' or 'MUSIC_PLAY' for example. The only way when
I see the icon displayed (eg, VIDEO_BROWSER) is when I comment out
exiting 'action' and 'depends' tags (with values 'JUMP MythVideo' and
'mythvideo' accordingly) and substitute that with action tag taken from
'TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS' button. I do see different image, which makes me
think that interface configuration part is working OK. When I click on
it I'm being taken to 'watch tv' menu (naturally).
<br><br>I
wonder what I'm doing wrong? Should plugins be specifically enabled
somehow in the DB or separate config file?... I had a brief look at
'settings' table, but couldn't find any related info. I also tried to
put 'plugins' directory on the path (thinking MythTV just can't find
the libraries), but that didn't help either.
<br><br>I hope someone can resolve this mystery.... THANKS IN ADVANCE!<br><span><br>Vlad</span>