XBMC for Raspbian wheezy including airplay,nfs,dvdcss.....

[nIerSify]

Hi,

Important notice: There is a problem with taglib, so that xbmc won´t start. Message that shows up:

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/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtag.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Also airplay is not working from the start. To fix these issues follow these steps:
Download taglib: http://sourceforge.net/projects/selfpro ... b/download and libshairport : http://sourceforge.net/projects/selfpro ... b/download
Then:

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sudo dpkg -i taglib_20121005-1_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i libshairport_1-1202030-1_armhf.deb

Taglib wont create the symbolic links, so that xbmc wont find the lib although it is installed. So we have to do it manually:

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cd /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1
sudo ln -s libtag.so.1 libtag.so

After you installed the required libraries you can install xbmc. It should then start properly

Best regards
nIerSify

[r0nnie]

i always have a hard time getting your debs working

i installed every thing like you have said but still cant get it running

[email protected] ~ $ cd /usr/lib/
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s libtag.so.1 libtag.so
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtag.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

all i want to do is stretch 4:3 vids to 16:9 lol

[r0nnie]

i always have a hard time getting your debs working

i installed every thing like you have said but still cant get it running

[email protected] ~ $ cd /usr/lib/
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s libtag.so.1 libtag.so
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtag.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

all i want to do is stretch 4:3 vids to 16:9 lol

i removed libtag.so.1 from /usr/lib
then done this cmd instead
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1

and seems to be working with stretch but when starting/stopping vids i see the terminal screen is this normal?

thanks

[nIerSify]

i always have a hard time getting your debs working

i installed every thing like you have said but still cant get it running

[email protected] ~ $ cd /usr/lib/
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo ln -s libtag.so.1 libtag.so
[email protected] /usr/lib $ sudo /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtag.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

all i want to do is stretch 4:3 vids to 16:9 lol

i removed libtag.so.1 from /usr/lib
then done this cmd instead
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1

and seems to be working with stretch but when starting/stopping vids i see the terminal screen is this normal?

thanks

I had a typo in the path for setting the symbolic links. The updated fix is posted on the blog: http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/inde ... /comments/.
Sorry for that ...
I did´t get it why sometimes shows the terminal screen when playing or stopping videos. I will investigate that....

Best regards
nIerSify

[r0nnie]

I had a typo in the path for setting the symbolic links. The right path is /usr/local/lib. Sorry for that ...
I did´t get it why sometimes shows the terminal screen when playing or stopping videos. I will investigate that....

Best regards
nIerSify

well seeing the terminal screen isnt much of a problem, im just happy to have stretch working now!!

thanks for this !

[AndroidPI]

Working nice.

[jsandrade]

Hello nIerSify,

You made a great job, thank you!

I have problems with AirPlay, I enabled it on XBMC settings however my idevices dont recognize any airplay device. Last weekend I tested this feature pretty good on raspbmc. I tried to create, links for libshairport as you described to libtag like:

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cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s libshairport.so.0.0.0 libshairport.so.1
sudo ln -sf libshairport.so.1 libshairport.so

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libshairport.so.1 ./libshairport.so.1

But it didnt worked, I am using arm128 on start.elf


Any help is appreciated.

[nIerSify]

Hello nIerSify,

You made a great job, thank you!

I have problems with AirPlay, I enabled it on XBMC settings however my idevices dont recognize any airplay device. Last weekend I tested this feature pretty good on raspbmc. I tried to create, links for libshairport as you described to libtag like:

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cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s libshairport.so.0.0.0 libshairport.so.1
sudo ln -sf libshairport.so.1 libshairport.so

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libshairport.so.1 ./libshairport.so.1

But it didnt worked, I am using arm128 on start.elf


Any help is appreciated.

Hi,

can you please post or upload your xbmc.log? Its located under /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log.
Normally you don´t need to create symlinks for libshairport. The installation should be enough for xbmc to recognize this library. I think your log file will solve the issue....

Best regards
nIerSify

[jsandrade]

Hi,

can you please post or upload your xbmc.log? Its located under /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log.
Normally you don´t need to create symlinks for libshairport. The installation should be enough for xbmc to recognize this library. I think your log file will solve the issue....

Best regards
nIerSify

Thanks for your quick reply, nIerSify.

My log file:

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# cat /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log                           
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Starting XBMC (12.0-ALPHA7 Git:20121003-5e4b59d), Platform: Linux (wheezy/sid, 3.2.27+ armv6l). Built on Oct  4 2012
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/xbmc
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /root/.xbmc/userdata
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /root/.xbmc
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /root/.xbmc/temp
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Local hostname: raspberrypi
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Log File is located: /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: load settings...
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Contents of special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <video>
                                                <defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
                                                <defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
                                              </video>
                                              <audio>
                                                <defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
                                                <streamsilence>false</streamsilence>
                                              </audio>
                                            </advancedsettings>
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: omxplayer
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Default Video Player: omxplayer
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: omxplayer
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level -1.

I also noticed that I cant control xbmc menu using app on my idevices with zeroconf enabled and also http.

I dont see <enableairtunesdebuglog>1</enableairtunesdebuglog> on it, so I decided to retry using a fresh installation of raspbian. as I have used xbmc-20121004_1rpb-1_armhf.deb on my dev environment, and it had a compiled XBMC manually last sunday.

I will bring news by friday or saturday because tonight I have soccer/football game at stadium.

Greetings from Brazil (yep, I posted on your blog)

Regards,
Jorge

[nIerSify]

Hi,

can you please post or upload your xbmc.log? Its located under /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log.
Normally you don´t need to create symlinks for libshairport. The installation should be enough for xbmc to recognize this library. I think your log file will solve the issue....

Best regards
nIerSify

Thanks for your quick reply, nIerSify.

My log file:

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# cat /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log                           
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Starting XBMC (12.0-ALPHA7 Git:20121003-5e4b59d), Platform: Linux (wheezy/sid, 3.2.27+ armv6l). Built on Oct  4 2012
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: /usr/share/xbmc
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/xbmc
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: /root/.xbmc/userdata
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: /root/.xbmc
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: /root/.xbmc/temp
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: The executable running is: /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Local hostname: raspberrypi
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Log File is located: /root/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log
22:48:20 T:1074348576  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: load settings...
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Contents of special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <video>
                                                <defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
                                                <defaultdvdplayer>omxplayer</defaultdvdplayer>
                                              </video>
                                              <audio>
                                                <defaultplayer>omxplayer</defaultplayer>
                                                <streamsilence>false</streamsilence>
                                              </audio>
                                            </advancedsettings>
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: omxplayer
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Default Video Player: omxplayer
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: omxplayer
22:48:21 T:1074348576  NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level -1.

I also noticed that I cant control xbmc menu using app on my idevices with zeroconf enabled and also http.

I dont see <enableairtunesdebuglog>1</enableairtunesdebuglog> on it, so I decided to retry using a fresh installation of raspbian. as I have used xbmc-20121004_1rpb-1_armhf.deb on my dev environment, and it had a compiled XBMC manually last sunday.

I will bring news by friday or saturday because tonight I have soccer/football game at stadium.

Greetings from Brazil (yep, I posted on your blog)

Regards,
Jorge

Hi,

i don´t see an error in the log file, so that airplay wouldn´t work. Please enable the debug function of xbmc under settings-system....and upload the log after trying to play something via airplay

Best regards
nIerSify

[Aydan]

I will add the dependencies in the .deb package next time...
Thanks for that hint

Best regards
nIerSify

Hi nIerSify,

did you get the dependency issue sorted?

Regards
Aydan

[Aydan]

I just tried installing xbmc_20121004-1_armhf.deb with the following result:

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[email protected]:~/build# dpkg -i xbmc_20121004-1_armhf.deb
Vormals nicht ausgewähltes Paket xbmc wird gewählt.
(Lese Datenbank ... 65717 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entpacken von xbmc (aus xbmc_20121004-1_armhf.deb) ...
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von xbmc:
 xbmc hängt ab von libplist1; aber:
  Paket libplist1 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von libmicrohttpd10; aber:
  Paket libmicrohttpd10 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von libtinyxml2.6.2; aber:
  Paket libtinyxml2.6.2 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von libyajl2; aber:
  Paket libyajl2 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von libssh-4; aber:
  Paket libssh-4 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von libmysqlclient18; aber:
  Paket libmysqlclient18 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von libfribidi0; aber:
  Paket libfribidi0 ist nicht installiert.
 xbmc hängt ab von liblockdev1; aber:
  Paket liblockdev1 ist nicht installiert.

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von xbmc (--install):
 Abhängigkeitsprobleme - verbleibt unkonfiguriert
Trigger für hicolor-icon-theme werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für desktop-file-utils werden verarbeitet ...
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 xbmc

and

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[email protected]:~/build# apt-get -f install

gives me this:

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Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeiten werden korrigiert... Fertig
Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  xbmc
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 1 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
1 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt.
Nach dieser Operation werden 73,0 MB Plattenplatz freigegeben.
Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]? n

After satisfying dependencies with aptitude there's one still missing:
xbmc-bin
Where do I get that?

Regards
Aydan

[Aydan]

It seems that all dependencies are met somehow, but i still can't start it.

form the shell I get:

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/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Error: unable to open display
FEH.py: cannot connect to X server

and from within X it complains about a missing GL driver.

[nIerSify]

It seems that all dependencies are met somehow, but i still can't start it.

form the shell I get:

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/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Error: unable to open display
FEH.py: cannot connect to X server

and from within X it complains about a missing GL driver.

Hi,

the required libraries are now dependencies for xbmc installation. Take a look at this page: http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/inde ... -for-xbmc/ to install the required libraries. You will need to install these libraries before you install xbmc.

After that you will need to correct the symlinks for the libraries. See here: http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/inde ... /comments/

After that xbmc should start. Ensure to connect your display via hdmi. I didn´t test it with tv-out.

Best regards
nIerSify

[Aydan]

You will need to install these libraries before you install xbmc.

Normally you install a deb and then afterwards do apt-get -f install to fix missing dependencies.
This should also configure the package which was missing the dependencies.
Another drawback of manually installing dependencies is that those packages are marked as installed manually and don't get removed if you remove xbmc.

After that you will need to correct the symlinks for the libraries. See here: http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/inde ... /comments/

This should be done by a configure script which is automatically run at the end of the installation.
Ideally you'd only have to do two things:

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dpkg -i xbmc*.deb
apt-get -f install

I'm just pointing this out as hints for future improvements and ease of installation.

Regards
Aydan

[nIerSify]

This should be done by a configure script which is automatically run at the end of the installation.
Ideally you'd only have to do two things:

I will try to make the installation process easier next time. I see that the installation process as it is now is not very handy

I will compile a newer version in the next two weeks or maybe earlier if i got the time and try to improve the installation process as you mentioned.

By the way does it work for you?

Best regards
nIerSify

[Aydan]

By the way does it work for you?

Not yet
I didn't put a whole lot of time in it anyway.
I was checking if the dependency thing had been solved, mostly.
I'll check if I have all dependencies installed and run a reconfigure for XBMC.

Regards
Aydan

[jsandrade]

Hi,

i don´t see an error in the log file, so that airplay wouldn´t work. Please enable the debug function of xbmc under settings-system....and upload the log after trying to play something via airplay

Best regards
nIerSify

Hi nIerSify,

My iphone and ipad only discovered airplay feature when i installed avahi-daemon following instructions on http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AirPlay. So, I recommed you to add this on your tutorial.

I am worried about CPU usage too high with this combination raspbian + XBMC, It gets around 90% all the time by xbmc.bin, also on menu mode. Is there any workaround to decrease it?

thanks again,

Jorge

[kadams2929]

nlerSify,

Could you please post your latest working image that includes your 20121004 .deb file on http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net ?

Keep up the good work and good luck with your thesis!

[Metatronin]

Latest build works great on both hdmi and composite out(with headphone jack for sound).

[nIerSify]

Hi nIerSify,

My iphone and ipad only discovered airplay feature when i installed avahi-daemon following instructions on http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AirPlay. So, I recommed you to add this on your tutorial.

I am worried about CPU usage too high with this combination raspbian + XBMC, It gets around 90% all the time by xbmc.bin, also on menu mode. Is there any workaround to decrease it?

thanks again,

Jorge

Hi,

normally you don´t need to install the avahi-daemon. Airplay comes with xbmc. The airplay function is the only feature i cannot really test. I have no ipad or another apple device because i am using android most of the time. There is only one player supporting airplay for android and that thing has worked with the latest xbmc build. Maybe you want to download the complete raspbian + xbmc image on my site tomorrow to test it with your devices.

Could you please post your latest working image that includes your 20121004 .deb file on http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net ?

Keep up the good work and good luck with your thesis!

I will upload a new image containing the latest raspbian image and the latest xbmc-build on my site on sunday (14.10.2012) Basically tomorrow ...


P.S
I included a facebook-like-button for anyone who wants to share it....

Best regards
nIerSify

[elatllat]

...I will upload a new image containing the latest raspbian image and the latest xbmc-build ...

If anyone decides to maintain an apt source for xbmc please list it here:
http://elinux.org/RPi_applications

[nIerSify]

Hi
i will upload a new image of raspbian (version: 2012-09-18) and the latest xbmc build (xbmc_20121004-1_armhf.deb). It contains the latest raspbian image from here. The required libraries have been installed in order to get xbmc working. I also added a script to /etc/init.d/ for starting xbmc. Please note that this script starts xbmc as root. You may want to change the script according to your favor.

To start xbmc on boot:

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cd /etc/init.d/
sudo update-rc.d xbmc defaults

To disable xbmc on boot:

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cd /etc/init.d/
sudo update-rc.d xbmc remove

To resize the sd-card or to overclock the raspberry pi, you can use raspi-config.I also disabled the option to directly boot to the desktop. You can enable this feature in the raspi-config menu aswell.

Username: pi
Password: raspberry


This image supports the following features:

• Compiled XBMC from mainline tree
  Airplay
  CEC
  dvdcss
  libblueray
  optical-drive
  omxplayer as default

I will post a download link, when the upload has finished

@Jorge
You were right on installing the avhi-daemon in order to get airplay working . My android application was using upnp for streaming video and audio. After i installed the daemon and disabling upnp, airplay was working as expected. Thank you very much
I have posted the site you mentioned on my blog....


Best regards
nIerSify

[jsandrade]

@Jorge
You were right on installing the avhi-daemon in order to get airplay working . My android application was using upnp for streaming video and audio. After i installed the daemon and disabling upnp, airplay was working as expected. Thank you very much
I have posted the site you mentioned on my blog....


Best regards
nIerSify

nIerSify,

All credit is yours, continue with your nice package and good tutorials.

I am still looking for a workaround about high CPU usage.

Cheers,

Jorge

[nIerSify]

The file is uploaded and can be download by following this link:http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/?page=downloads. The file´s name is: raspbian_wheezy_20121015+xbmc.exe. Its a self-extracting archive so that you don´t need to install additional software anymore

Best regards
nIerSify