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Still having problems I'm afraid. Ran the command you suggested to clean out mysql-common. Redownloaded libmysqlclient15off, the size has changed so I assume it's a new version. It won;t install normally as it's still complaining about the dependancy on mysql-common. An attempt to install ignoring mysql-common resulting in the following...

Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc1/Mythtv debs# dpkg --ignore-depends=mysql-common -i libmysqlclient15off_5.0.32-7chinook1_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 21770 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libmysqlclient15off 5.0.32-7chinook1 (using libmysqlclient15off_5.0.32-7chinook1_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libmysqlclient15off ...
Setting up libmysqlclient15off (5.0.32-7chinook1) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing libmysqlclient15off (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libmysqlclient15off
Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc1/Mythtv debs#

Hold your horses, I'm still compiling everything! I'll post when I have something new up.

cool, cheers.

Well I worked out what the problem was, the debian mysql packages I ported used scripts for post/preinst that had #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh in their headers!

The reason I didn't catch it is because both my n810 and scratch box have bash installed. A temporary fix would just be to ln -s /bin/sh /bin/bash if you want to try the current packages.

I'll post again when I have the new packages up with this fixed.

Too impatient!! So I have installed bash.
Just dropped to root shell and did apt-get install bash3. edited /etc/passwd and changed /bin/sh to /bin/bash for user and root.

It is now starting up. I will have a play and report back in a bit.

First thing though, when you first configure the frontend, start it after you have changed to root as it wants to ping the backend to test connectivity, but user is not allowed access to ping by default, so it will never find the server.

Also on-screen pop-up keyboards do not work.

Good point, this should definitely be off by default then.


Hm, there is a settings in the setup somewhere that disables/enables them, and I'm not sure what the default is. I never really thought of using them given I have an n810 :$

About ping. the command chmod u+s /bin/ping will enable ping for the normal user, who then can start mythfrontend quite happily.

I use the command mythfrontend -l /media/mmc1/mythfrontend.log 2>&1 which logs output to a log file.

I'm not bothered about the on-screen keyboards, I didn't try them using the d-pad which by the way works fine on an 800, but I am using my trusty iGo slim keyboard.

I have tried a recording transcoded down to mpeg4 with a bitrate of 800, audio 32000 and quality of 7, Video size not changed from about 720x576. which did not work.

I'm busy transcoding a recording down to 400x240 with the other setting as above, but I not hopeful that it will work.

cracking job so far though.

cheers

Gaz

How much does this take on the device? I would love to try out this great port but I only have 22 MB left

maybe about 8MB - not as much as I thought. Yani has not ported any additional themes other than blue and GANT, nor any additional plugins such as music, video etc. It's not lightening fast, but it's nowhere near as slow as I'd feared certainly useable. Program guide is OK, I don't have another frontend running over wireless. Make try to take a video of it in action for posting to youtube or somewhere.

It may be better to get some of the other plugins ported. Video will allow you to change the player, so that may work well, and stuff such as music, news etc. may make more sense to me on a handheld than on my telly.

The extra themes are available, but yes, optional.

I'd have to agree. Suprisingly the mythtv-QT4 port was a lot more responsive, I immediately noticed a slowdown in the UI with QT3 and mythtv 0.21. Of course mythtv-QT4 is still too unstable to use for video playback, so that's all academic until 0.22 is released.