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Luis Fernandes edited this page May 26, 2013 · 3 revisions

Adding KXMOVIE

Kxmovie is a library which adds a ffmpeg player to the app. Adding ffmpeg has a lot of drawbacks:

  • software only decoding of MPEG2 streams (your iOS device will drain)
  • software only for MPEG4 - because tvheadend uses a mkv or TS container
  • royalties for AC3
  • royalties for MPEG2
  • it's just slow, buggy (hangs a lot) and it's not polished enough
  • if you can run hardware accelerated MPEG2 / MKV streams, then you can run XBMC which is the right app to do this.

But if you want to add kxmovie and test it:

Get the code:

cd tvheadend-iphone-client/
git clone --recursive git://github.com/kolyvan/kxmovie.git
cd kxmovie
rake

# you need to have gas-preprocessor.pl in /usr/local/bin and have it 777, so 
cp gas-preprocessor.pl /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/gas-preprocessor.pl

After the compilation is finished, drag the following files from kxmovie/kxmovie/output to the project

  • KxMovieViewController.h
  • kxmovie.bundle
  • libavcodec.a , libavformat.a, libavutil.a, libkxmovie.a, libswresample.a, libswscale.a ( all lib*.a )

Go to Project / Target TvhClient / Build Phases - Link Binary With Libraries and verify that the libraries from kxmovie/output were added. Also add the following frameworks:

  • OpenGLES.framework
  • Accelerate.framework
  • AudioToolbox.framework
  • CoreAudio.framework
  • MediaPlayer.framework
  • libiconv.dylib

Uncoment #define KXMOVIE in TVHPlayStreamHelpController.m

"Play Stream" should popup in a red button.

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