Bug 453012

Summary:	media-tv/xbmc-fernetmenta-9999 - New ebuild for the FernetMenta branch of XBMC.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	wippie <gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo, xbox
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/FernetMenta/xbmc
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	media-tv/xbmc-fernetmenta-9999.ebuild media-tv/xbmc-fernetmenta-9999.ebuild

Description wippie 2013-01-19 16:45:50 UTC

New ebuild for the FernetMenta master branch of XBMC. This is the main branch for xvba-support in xbmc, i.e. Amd's UVD hardware. Anyone running xbmc on Amd hardware using ati-drivers will probably want this. I publish this since the official XBMC 12 Frodo will not have xvba support. Not a perfect ebuild but it gets the job done. I'm still learning this.
PVR should be supported but not yet tested.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVD

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 wippie 2013-01-19 16:47:53 UTC

Created attachment 336144 [details]
media-tv/xbmc-fernetmenta-9999.ebuild

Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-19 16:53:17 UTC

Some suggestions:

1. Use the proper header obtained through `head -n3 /usr/portage/skel.ebuild`.
2. You can switch to the latest stable EAPI="5".
3. Don't leave clutter like #EGIT_REPO_URI... or #ISUE behind, it does nothing but stand in your way.
4. You might want to adjust the DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE to describe the branch.

Comment 3 wippie 2013-01-19 20:46:39 UTC

Created attachment 336164 [details]
media-tv/xbmc-fernetmenta-9999.ebuild

Updated ebuild from suggestions.

Note:
Due to the design of XBMC; if PulseAudio support is enabled, ALSA support will be disabled.

Note:
This ebuild is based on FernetMentas master branch, which sometimes can be a bit unstable. If you wish for a more stable release, use FernetMentas frodo branch.
You can use the same ebuild for this. Just replace
EGIT_BRANCH="master"
with
EGIT_BRANCH="frodo"
in the ebuild.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-01-20 19:39:38 UTC

you can already use xbmc-9999.ebuild with specific branches and repos

use /etc/portage/env/ and set EGIT_* and xbmc_LIVE_REPO to something special

Comment 5 wippie 2013-01-27 11:56:20 UTC

Well almost..
Original ebuild does not have support for xvba; 

  xvba? ( x11-libs/xvba-video )
  ..
  $(use_enable xvba) \

Nor does it have support for hardened systems;

  inherit eutils python pax-utils
  ..
  pax-mark -m "${D}"usr/lib64/xbmc/xbmc.bin

So even if you build it from the FernetMenta sources, it will not have xvba support enabled.
The configure looks for amdxvba.h, which is included in the x11-libs/xvba-sdk.
Unfortunately, xvba-sdk is not available in the main portage tree, but it's on bgo, available here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356749

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-01-27 16:19:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)

that's because mainline doesn't support xvba.  but that isn't stopping you from passing custom flags to the build process via per-package env.  not a bug, and no missing functionality.