Installation on sarge

Description

author: Roman Müllenschläder

translation and small changes: Julian Flake

Installation on Debian

For problems with the packages please post in this forum

Repositories

Update your /etc/apt/sources.list or synaptic with following.

Sid

deb http://www.prodeia.de/mms/sid binary/

Lenny

deb http://www.prodeia.de/mms/lenny binary/

Etch

deb http://www.prodeia.de/mms/etch binary/

Sources

deb-src http://www.prodeia.de/mms source/

After that do:

sudo apt-get update

Installation

Basic Set

To install a basic set of packages, do:

sudo apt-get install mms

This installs: mms, mms-theme-standard, mms-output-sdl, mms-input-keyboard (No Plugins are installed per default, for to let you choose freely ;)

Additional Packages

Choose from the Plugins below, what you need and what you want. If a Plugin needs a Player (like mms-plugin-audio does), a standard Player is installed, if not choosen otherwise

Example

sudo apt-get install mms-plugin-audio

installs:

mms-plugin-audio, mms-audio-alsaplayer

If you want xine-audio as audio player, do:

sudo apt-get install mms-audio-xine

or

sudo apt-get install mms-plugin-audio mms-audio-xine

If you want both, alsaplayer & xine-audio, do:

sudo apt-get install mms-audio-xine mms-audio-alsaplayer

Available Packages/Plugins

These are the packages available:

MMS

mms - My Media System (MMS) - a complete Mediasuite
mms-dbg - Debugging Symbols (needed when want to use with gdb for debugging)

Themes

mms-theme-standard - Standard theme for MMS
mms-theme-midnight - Additional themes for MMS
mms-theme-ocean - Additional themes for MMS
mms-theme-darkmix - Additional themes for MMS
mms-theme-tenebrous - Additional themes for MMS
mms-theme-greensmoke - Additional themes for MMS

Inputs

mms-input-evdev - MMS-Plugin to use any evdev device as input (gamepad)
mms-input-keyboard - MMS-Plugin that provides keyboard input
mms-input-lirc - MMS-Plugin that provides input with lirc
mms-input-replay - MMS-Plugin that replays saved inputs

Audio

mms-plugin-audio - MMS-Plugin that provides Audio-playback

Audio-Players

mms-audio-alsaplayer - MMS-Plugin that uses alsaplayer for Audio
mms-audio-gstreamer - MMS-Plugin that uses gstreamer for Audio
mms-audio-xine - MMS-Plugin that uses libxine for Audio

Movie

mms-plugin-movie - MMS-Plugin that provides Movie-playback

Movie-Players

mms-movie-cxfe - MMS-Plugin that uses cxfe (xine frontend) for movies
mms-movie-generic - MMS-Plugin for to use whatever player for movies
mms-movie-mplayer - MMS-Plugin that uses mplayer for movies

Outputs

mms-output-dvb - MMS-Plugin to use FF-DVB cards as output
mms-output-dxr3 - MMS-Plugin to use DXR3 cards as output
mms-output-lcd - MMS-Plugin to use LCD displays as output
mms-output-mpeg - MMS-Plugin to record output to Mpeg-file
mms-output-opengl - MMS-Plugin to use OpenGL as output
mms-output-sdl - MMS-Plugin to use SDL (X11/Framebuffer) as output

Additional Plugins

mms-plugin-epg - MMS-Plugin that shows off EPG-infos
mms-plugin-game - MMS-Plugin to use game-emulators or scripts
mms-plugin-picture - MMS-Plugin that provides Picture-slideshow
mms-plugin-python - MMS-Plugin that enable usage of python scripts
mms-plugin-tv - MMS-Plugin that provides TV
mms-plugin-weather - MMS-Plugin to show weather forecast
mms-plugin-clock - MMS-Plugin to show current date & time in notification-area
mms-plugin-vbox - MMS-Plugin to connect to vbox daemon

Addons

mms-addon-python-pyglets - All available Pyglets combined in one package

Other available packages

cxfe - Console Xine FrontEnd (a libxine based player for console used in mms-movie-xine

uatschitchun 19:00, 09 March 2009 (CET)

Howto do it yourself

I wrote a small tutorial... for those who are interested :-)

This tutorial relates to debian sarge with marillat repository in /etc/apt/sources.list

Required packages

through dependencies, some more will be needed, than those we are listing here

aptitude install libimlib2-dev libsdl1.2-dev autoconf bzr build-essential libxine-dev mplayer-nogui pkg-config

and

aptitude install w32codecs libtag1-dev libsqlite0-dev libpcre3-dev liblircclient-dev libtool gettext libalsaplayer-dev

Note:

If you get the following error, apt was not able to verify the public gpg key of ftp.nerim.net. To fix this read the little howto on Linux Weblog.

The error message looks like:

"GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key [..] "

installation of MMS

preparations

first, create a folder, where the sources will be downloaded, for example:

cd /usr/local/src/
mkdir mms
cd mms

download sources

we get the latest development version of mms with:

bzr get http://people.iola.dk/anders/mms-1.1.0.tar.bz2

this may take a while.

change to the latest version with

cd mms-1.1.0

compilation

The parts of mms, which should be enabled at compile time have to be applied to ./configure for example:

./configure --enable-fancy-audio --disable-xidle --enable-xine-audio --enable-fancy-movie --enable-picture-epg --enable-sdl --enable-eject-tray

that means:

fancy-audio 

audio mode with cover display

xidle 

Xidle for fancy audio

xine-audio 

xine as audioplayer

fancy-movie 

movie mode with cover display

picture-epg 

tv listings with pictures

sdl 

compile mms with SDL as additional output device besides DXR3

eject-tray 

enables a menu item with which you can open and close your CD/DVD-drive

If you do not have a dxr3 installed you also have to apply

--disable-dxr3

For all possible options try

./configure --help

finally type:

make

installation

If everything went fine, and no errors occured, type

make install

as superuser.

annotations on Debian

The way described above doesn't use debian's excellent package management. This is necessary, because there is no official debian package available until now (12/05).

To create your own debian package, type:

apt-get install checkinstall

and instead of

make install

just type

checkinstall -D make install

this creates a debian package (.deb), which you can install with

dpkg -i mms.....deb

an uninstall with

aptitude remove mms....

configuration files

main configuration file is

/etc/mms/config

here you have to set the locations, where your media files are stored.

keyboard bindings can be found in

/etc/mms/input-keyboard

lirc bindings can be found and edited in

/etc/mms/input-keyboard

runnning

type

mms --help

to see which input and output devices are compiled in your mms then type

 mms -i <input> -o <output>

for output on a desktop and controlling via keyboard, type:

mms -o sdl -i keyboard

for output on framebuffer device, type:

export SDL_NOMOUSE="1"
mms -o sdl -i keyboard

for output on dxr3 just type: (this may change in 1.1.0)

mms

init Script

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/mms: start/stop mms
#
if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
       LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" /usr/local/bin/mms >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo "mms starting ..."
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
       killall -9 /usr/local/bin/mms
       echo "mms stopped (kill) ..."
else
   echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}"
fi
# End of file

copy to

/etc/init.d/mms

and make executable:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/mms