Boxee Fedora 10/11 port

**kurgan** · January 23rd, 2010, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by FergatROn

kurgan, you have the utmost respect from me and one else in the Fedora community that wanted to play with Boxee. Thank you for maintaining an RPM. I don't know how to build RPMs, but if you need feedback or testing of any kind I will make myself available.

To help promote this awesome deed of yours, I made a blog post on it. Thankfully; Wordpress has good SEO and no one else has really blogged about this, so if you do a search, you'll find a link to your project.

http://www.fergytech.com/2010/01/box...for-fedora-12/

I'm running Fedora 12 x86_64 and I installed the 64bit version. I usually run with the default settings in Fedora and I saw that you said ALSA works instead of PulseAudio. So; I installed ALSA:

Code:

# yum install alsamixergui alsa-*

And it worked like a charm. From what I've played with so far, I can certainly confirm that Flash isn't working. Revision 3's content comes in fine though (I don't know what they're doing that's different. With that said, I was wondering if your using a "wrapper"?

I've noticed that I have to make a symbolic link to

Code:

$ /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so

instead of

Code:

$ /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Just some extra info. I'm hear for ya' bro.

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Thanks! Great blog post btw. I myself have not used plugin wrappers since flash came out with a 64 bit flash plugin. I never had much luck with nspluginwrapper so I stopped using it and ran 32 bit for a long time, until the 64 bit plugin was released.

Overall, flash content has worked for me. There are problematic sites that I still have not figured out workarounds for, such as Hulu. I still can't help but think that some of the flash problems (not all) would be resolved if I could build the _entire_ package against a Fedora system.

Thanks again for the shout out, and keep spreading the word. Perhaps if enough interest is gained, we can have a more reliable package for the distro.

**thwalker3** · January 23rd, 2010, 01:39 PM

Well, not having a boatload of dupe libs for one... maybe I'm just a nut for cleanliness.
Anyway, got it actually built and running with all external libs. Now if the flash junk just didn't crash all over the place.

I skimmed the thread but doesn't look like anyone else has that part figured out yet? x86_64 fc12 btw.

**sdnick484** · January 26th, 2010, 11:19 PM

Looks like the new source release, boxee-sources-0.9.20.10408.tar.bz2, includes the missing .so's from XULRunner which should hopefully resolve some flash issues. I'm in the process of building it on Gentoo now and so far all the same patches as the previous release are necessary (fortunately they're minor).

EDIT: Spoke to soon, xulrunner-bin and there seems to be other issues. When I replace the xulrunner-x86_64-linux with one I built, flash stuff like youtube work.

**kurgan** · January 27th, 2010, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by sdnick484

Looks like the new source release, boxee-sources-0.9.20.10408.tar.bz2, includes the missing .so's from XULRunner which should hopefully resolve some flash issues. I'm in the process of building it on Gentoo now and so far all the same patches as the previous release are necessary (fortunately they're minor).

EDIT: Spoke to soon, xulrunner-bin and there seems to be other issues. When I replace the xulrunner-x86_64-linux with one I built, flash stuff like youtube work.

I wonder if this is due to my removing the vanilla "xulrunner" directory from my rpm? I assumed that since the contents were 32 bit, it was not needed on the 64 bit build.

**kurgan** · January 27th, 2010, 11:20 AM

New x86_64 version based on 10408 is up. I still have to get the 32 bit version built, sorry that's taking so long.

**sdnick484** · January 27th, 2010, 01:54 PM

Turns out all that's necessary is to copy your libflashplugin.so to xulrunner-x86_64-linux/bin/plugins for flash to work. I'm still having Hulu issues, but I have those in Firefox on x86_64 as well (this is on Gentoo).

**kurgan** · January 27th, 2010, 09:39 PM

Just installed F12 x86_64 on my htpc, and hammered out some testing with this new package. If any of you have boxee-0.9.20.10408-0.1.b installed, please update to boxee-0.9.20.10408-0.2.b which I am uploading now. I have outlined the changes in the rpm changelog.

I tried suggestions from sdnick484, but flash still did not work. I was able to even get Hulu to work (admit I only tested one show briefly). Changes as follows:

1) Remove the rtorrent binary. If anyone wants it, grab sources and add it back to your own version.

2) Delete the entire boxee/system/players/flashplayer/xulrunner-x86_64-linux/bin directory. This directory in the tarball of sources contains pre-built libraries that are already found on the system. Why in the world the boxee devs insist on continuing with this practice is beyond me. Why not use the system libraries (I did)?

3) Create a symlink named boxee/system/players/flashplayer/xulrunner-x86_64-linux/bin that points to the system /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1. This works for me, all flash I have tested works, even one show on Hulu.

As usual, feedback is welcome and appreciated.

**sdhughes** · February 8th, 2010, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by kurgan

Just installed F12 x86_64 on my htpc, and hammered out some testing with this new package. If any of you have boxee-0.9.20.10408-0.1.b installed, please update to boxee-0.9.20.10408-0.2.b which I am uploading now. I have outlined the changes in the rpm changelog.

I tried suggestions from sdnick484, but flash still did not work. I was able to even get Hulu to work (admit I only tested one show briefly). Changes as follows:

1) Remove the rtorrent binary. If anyone wants it, grab sources and add it back to your own version.

2) Delete the entire boxee/system/players/flashplayer/xulrunner-x86_64-linux/bin directory. This directory in the tarball of sources contains pre-built libraries that are already found on the system. Why in the world the boxee devs insist on continuing with this practice is beyond me. Why not use the system libraries (I did)?

3) Create a symlink named boxee/system/players/flashplayer/xulrunner-x86_64-linux/bin that points to the system /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1. This works for me, all flash I have tested works, even one show on Hulu.

As usual, feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Hi -- this looks like great work! I don't have it quite working on my system, however. I have an Intel 965Q video card running the 'intel' xorg driver. Don't know if that matters or not but..

The Boxee interface works fine for me, lircd integration is great, etc. I can watch Youtube videos, but TV Shows like FOX and Comedy Central shows play AUDIO, but no video. The UI is there when I push "enter" and exit, but the video is just black. For FOX & WB shows that are wrapped in a webpage, the webpage displays but the video doesn't. I hear the audio the whole time.. Tons of errors on the console about Gtk focus.

(bxflplayer-x86_64-linux:27896): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_toplevel: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(bxflplayer-x86_64-linux:27896): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

ERROR: ld.so: object './bxoverride-x86_64-linux.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object './bxoverride-x86_64-linux.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object './bxoverride-x86_64-linux.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Which version of flash are you guys using on FC12 x86_64? Is there any magic to installing it that I might have missed? I downloaded the 64-bit plugin from Adobe and copied the libflashplugin.so to /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/plugins directory.

I played around with the nspluginwrapper stuff, but that didn't prove very fruitful.

I even tried rebuilding the SRPM on my own system to see if I was missing a library anywhere.. it built fine and I got the same results.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

-Scott

**sdhughes** · February 9th, 2010, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by sdhughes

The Boxee interface works fine for me, lircd integration is great, etc. I can watch Youtube videos, but TV Shows like FOX and Comedy Central shows play AUDIO, but no video. The UI is there when I push "enter" and exit, but the video is just black. For FOX & WB shows that are wrapped in a webpage, the webpage displays but the video doesn't. I hear the audio the whole time.. Tons of errors on the console about Gtk focus.

(bxflplayer-x86_64-linux:27896): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_toplevel: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(bxflplayer-x86_64-linux:27896): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

To followup to my own post -- it looks like bxflplayer-x86_64-linux is segfaulting every time I try to play one of these problematic shows... yet I still get audio.

Perplexed..

Scott

**kurgan** · February 10th, 2010, 01:54 PM

sdhughes,

Please see http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=14915

Hulu still doesn't work on pure 64 bit linux. See http://www.hulu.com/discussions/9/110036/495965#

It is hard to blame Boxee for these issues since they don't work in any browser of any pure 64 bit linux distro i've tried. The people I have seen get it (Hulu) working use nspluginwrapper, and i'm not willing to revert back to that just because someone at these companies has a brain fart. I'll watch by other means, if I watch at all.