Ceton InifiniTV 4 in MythTV 0.24 - Part 3 (Mythbuntu)

In Part 2 of this article, I provided all of the instructions for setting up MythTV 0.24 to use a Ceton InfiniTV 4 cablecard tuner. Today, I'm going to provide a simple step by step that should get a Mythbuntu 11.04 user up and running with Ceton support. However, before continuing, please first read Part 2 to see all of the disclaimers and important info. I'm going to assume you've read it, and thus won't be repeating all of the important details here.

Instructions

mkdir /usr/src/mythtv
cd /usr/src/mythtv

apt-get build-dep mythtv
apt-get source mythtv
apt-get install devscripts

cd mythtv-0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece

dch -i

This will take you to edit a file containing a changelog. At the top of the file, it will have already filled in the framework for you to enter your change info. There will be a line with a single asterisk * about 3-4 lines down. Next to the asterisk, just put a brief summery like "applying ron's ceton patch"

For the following, I'm going to assume you've put the patch file (which you can get here) in your home directory. Also, substitute the XXX in the filename with the appropriate version you've downloaded.

cp ~/ceton_mythbuntu_verXXX.patch debian/patches/
patch --dry-run -p1 < debian/patches/ceton_mythbuntu_verXXX.patch

Make sure you got no error from the above. Also please double check the output to make sure it doesn't say anything about applying the patch with fuzz. Although patching with fuzz will work at this step, when you go to rebuild the package, it won't allow fuzz.

pico debian/patches/series

Add ceton_mythbuntu_verXXX.patch at the end of the mythtv section.

debuild -us -uc -iFFmpeg

In the above command -us and -uc are necessary so that we can build the packages even though we aren't setup to sign them. The -iFFmpeg is to tell the packager not to include the FFmpeg stuff in the package. I had to do this because the build process started complaining about the binary file being different. I couldn't find any good explanations on google, but since I didn't modify anything in ffmpeg, we can just leave it out and it will use the old version.


Now at this step you are going to need to install the packages to replace the binary files with your new version. First, I want you to run the following command and make note of the timestamps on the existing files (copy the output to a text editor and hold onto it for a few moments).

ls -l /usr/bin/mythbackend /usr/bin/mythfrontend* /usr/lib/libmythtv-0.24.so* /usr/bin/mythtv-setup*

Now lets install the packages. There are a ton of packages here, and you can try to install them all if you like. However, I only bothered with the following, and everything seemed to work

cd ..
dpkg -i mythtv_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_all.deb
dpkg -i mythtv-common_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
dpkg -i libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
dpkg -i mythtv-backend_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
dpkg -i mythtv-frontend_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb


Now, let's once again look at the timestamps on the files:

ls -l /usr/bin/mythbackend /usr/bin/mythfrontend* /usr/lib/libmythtv-0.24.so* /usr/bin/mythtv-setup*

Everything should have a new timestamp on it


At this point, all of the Mythbuntu specific stuff should be setup. Now go to Part 2 of this article and continue on from step 8.


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