Sheevaplug – install get_iplayer

With help of Percival P Plugsley’s post here

I managed to get get_iplayer working on my Sheevaplug with Ubuntu jaunty installed on it’s internal flash memory.

You need to visit the download page at linuxcentre.net and download the get_iplayer perl script to a folder of your choice i.e c/root/

As you cannot get the mplayer app in the Sheevaplug repositories you need flvstreamer from, here which you will need to compile for the Sheevaplugs ARM architecture. First download the flvstreamer source flvstreamer-1.9.tar.gz from http://mirrors.aixtools.net/sv/flvstreamer/source/ and save it to the Sheevaplug unpacking it into a directory of your choice i.e. /root/flvtemp

Now we need some other packages installed, in a [Terminal]

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install lame
sudo apt-get install perl
sudo apt-get install libwww-perl

I like to use nano rather than vi, so I also added;
sudo apt-get install nano

now move to the directory you saved the source to;

cd /root/flvtemp

create a new file called MakefileARM

sudo touch MakefileARM
now open it with
nano makefileARM
Then add the following to the file;

############## start #######################
CC=gcc
CXX=g++
LD=ld

CFLAGS=-Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
CXXFLAGS=-Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
LDFLAGS=-Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

CXXFLAGS=
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=/opt/lib

all: flvstreamer

clean:
< TAB >rm -f *.o

streams: bytes.o log.o rtmp.o AMFObject.o rtmppacket.o streams.o parseurl.o
< TAB >$(CXX) $(LDFLAGS) $(ARMFLAGS) $^ -o $@_arm -lpthread

flvstreamer: bytes.o log.o rtmp.o AMFObject.o rtmppacket.o flvstreamer.o parseurl.o
< TAB >$(CXX) $(LDFLAGS) $(ARMFLAGS) $^ -o $@_arm

bytes.o: bytes.c bytes.h Makefile
log.o: log.c log.h Makefile
rtmp.o: rtmp.cpp rtmp.h log.h AMFObject.h Makefile
AMFObject.o: AMFObject.cpp AMFObject.h log.h rtmp.h Makefile
rtmppacket.o: rtmppacket.cpp rtmppacket.h log.h Makefile
flvstreamer.o: flvstreamer.cpp rtmp.h log.h AMFObject.h Makefile
parseurl.o: parseurl.c parseurl.h log.h Makefile
streams.o: streams.cpp log.h Makefile
############### end ######################

remove the texted called < TAB > and replace them with a TAB as copying the text and pasting it into a document often replaces the TAB with a space and you will get an error message when you compile it similar to;

Makefile:15: *** missing separator. Stop.

save the file and now run the command;

sudo make -f MakefileARM flvstreamer

This will create a file in the same directory called flvstreamer_arm, create a directory to store it in;

sudo mkdir /root/flvstreamer

move flvstreamer to it;

cp /root/flvtemp/flvstreamer_arm /root/flvstreamer

now move to the directory;

cd /root/flvstreamer

and make the file executable with;

chmod +x flvstreamer_arm

now test all is working with;

./flvstreamer_arm –help

If that works then you can move on to get_iplayer

create a directory for get_iplayer and copy the perl script you downloaded to it

sudo mkdir /root/get_iplayer
sudo chmod 755 get_iplayer
cp /root/get_iplayer /root/get_iplayer/

move to the Directory and run get_iplayer
cd /root/get_iplayer
./get_iplayer

The first time you run it get_iplayer should update itself and end, the second time it will download the current BBC listings.

Now add the following prefs;

./get_iplayer –prefs-add –flvstreamer=”/root/flvstreamer/flvstreamer_arm”
./get_iplayer –prefs-add –ffmpeg=”/usr/bin/ffmpeg”
./get_iplayer –prefs-add –lame=”/usr/bin/lame”
./get_iplayer –prefs-add –output=”/PATH/To/Your/Download/Directory”

Check for a program;

./get_iplayer –type=radio “News”

check out the 5 digit index code of one of the programs and download it as follows

./get_iplayer –get 13119

Hope this helps

Tags: Jaunty, Linux, Martin Cooper, Sheevaplug, Ubuntu