Compiling PS3 Media Server on OSX

[pk.oddity]

I've been lurking in the background keeping touch with all things OSX.

However, once I realized I couldn't play HQ MKV files on any of the lastest stable releases of PMS I thought I'd give compiling my own copy of PMS a go. 1.23 to be exact.

I was actually able to do it quite easily using XCode 4 and this http://otmanix.de/english/2011/02/12/compiling-ps3-media-server-on-mac-os-x/.

Yet, when I tried to compile Raptor399's .sh version of it, I came across this error.

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ar rc libz.a adler32.o compress.o crc32.o deflate.o gzclose.o gzlib.o gzread.o gzwrite.o infback.o inffast.o inflate.o inftrees.o trees.o uncompr.o zutil.o
gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -isystem /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -arch i386 -I/Users/PK/pms/target/include -fPIC -DPIC -c -o objs/zutil.o zutil.c
ar: libz.a: Inappropriate file type or format
make: *** [libz.a] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Fatal error occurred, aborting build.


I'm pretty new at all this, but it is kind of fun. Even though I have 1.23 compiled I'd like to try Raptor399's. Any help would be nice. Thanks.

[Raptor399]

If you look closely, my script is actually following Otmanix's recipe.
It goes a step further though, because Otmanix uses the precompiled binaries that come shipped with PMS and I specifically wanted to update those.

I don't have Xcode 4 myself (using 3.2.6 here), maybe I should install it to see what errors pop up.

As for the error you get... What strikes me as odd is that there are actually two commands there:

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ar rc libz.a [...] zutil.o
gcc [...] -o objs/zutil.o zutil.c

The first command requires the file that is the result of the second command! This may be an unwanted side effect of the multithreaded compilation.

Try editing the script to set the number of threads to 1:

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THREADS="1"

Let me know if that works for you. If it does, I will remove the unsafe multithreading from the script.

[delight]

I would love to try a newer version of PMS, but I my girlfriend won't let me install more stuff on her mac so I can't try compiling it myself Is there any plans for releasing a compiled dmg-file of the latest version of this wonderful software for OSX any time soon, or should I just try convincing my gf that she needs Xcode in order to use her computer safely?

thanks

[pk.oddity]

Raptor I tried playing with the thread count and still got the same error. It kept stopping on the file format error so I deleted the zlib folder and files, retried and it worked...

but now I'm getting this error.

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config.status: creating expat_config.h
/bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -I./lib -I. -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -isystem /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -arch x86_64 -I/Users/PK/pms/target/include -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions  -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o lib/xmlparse.lo -c lib/xmlparse.c
/bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -I./lib -I. -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -isystem /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -arch x86_64 -I/Users/PK/pms/target/include -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions  -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o lib/xmltok.lo -c lib/xmltok.c
lib/xmlparse.c:81:2: error: #error memmove does not exist on this platform, nor is a substitute available
make: *** [lib/xmlparse.lo] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Fatal error occurred, aborting build.


EDIT: I think this issue is with XCode 4, gonna try reinstalling..

[kickstart]

Noticed this error in the traces section after building and patching using Raptor's script:

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main] INFO  20:36:43.904 Checking MPlayer font cache. It can take a minute or so.
[main] ERROR 20:36:44.035 Cannot launch MPlayer / Check the presence of osx/mplayer ...
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "osx/mplayer" (in directory "/var/folders/he/heYT--HeF0GHqbo0mmkqf++++TI/-Tmp-/ps3mediaserver"): error=2, No such file or directory
   at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at net.pms.PMS.checkProcessExistence(PMS.java:271) [pms.jar:na]
   at net.pms.PMS.init(PMS.java:414) [pms.jar:na]
   at net.pms.PMS.get(PMS.java:1324) [pms.jar:na]
   at net.pms.PMS.main(PMS.java:1410) [pms.jar:na]
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:116) [na:na]
   at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:51) [na:na]
   at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.launch(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:52) [na:na]
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
   at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:53) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:91) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453) ~[na:1.6.0_24]
   ... 11 common frames omitted
[main] INFO  20:36:44.038 Done!

[Raptor399]

Raptor I tried playing with the thread count and still got the same error. It kept stopping on the file format error so I deleted the zlib folder and files, retried and it worked...

Hmmm, strange. I do not see why deleting would help. But hey, if it works, it works!

About the new error: that is also strange. Check "src/expat-2.0.1/lib/macconfig.h", line 22. That should read "#define HAVE_MEMMOVE", so your error should not occur because "src/expat-2.0.1/lib/xmlparse.c", line 76 reads:

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/* Handle the case where memmove() doesn't exist. */
#ifndef HAVE_MEMMOVE
#ifdef HAVE_BCOPY
#define memmove(d,s,l) bcopy((s),(d),(l))
#else
#error memmove does not exist on this platform, nor is a substitute available
#endif /* HAVE_BCOPY */
#endif /* HAVE_MEMMOVE */

Maybe something went wrong with "configure"?
I don't know what influence XCode 4 has on the whole process.

Noticed this error in the traces section after building and patching using Raptor's script:

That is a known bug in PMS, see issue 968. It is just a message, though. PMS actually does know where to find the binaries, despite the error. You can safely ignore it.

[pk.oddity]

XCode 4 gave me issues (googling memmove error came up with a lot finds / info). So I tried XCode 3.2.5 and it was able to compile. I have a working copy, but was still unable to properly play HQ MKV files.. issues with the audio encoding, but maybe I just need to mess around with PMS settings. (I did do the ac3 fixed edits).

[kickstart]

XCode 4 gave me issues (googling memmove error came up with a lot finds / info). So I tried XCode 3.2.5 and it was able to compile. I have a working copy, but was still unable to properly play HQ MKV files.. issues with the audio encoding, but maybe I just need to mess around with PMS settings. (I did do the ac3 fixed edits).

Do the MKV files happen to be encoded with AAC audio?

[daboblin]

Hmm, I did the same and it's still failing at the same point. I wonder if the dev tools need to be at a certain rev? I have both Xcode 3.2.5 and Xcode 4 installed, but 3.2.5 is in /Developer. I could try updating to 3.2.6 I guess.

So I updated to 3.2.6 and I got a failed build, complaining about the fact that libjpeg was a 32-bit binary. I removed the old binary library, rebuilt and hey presto it's working! I haven't tested audio etc yet but at least it's running and detecting the PS3. Great.

[pk.oddity]

Do the MKV files happen to be encoded with AAC audio?

Actually, I was mistaken MKV files came up "Corrupt File" when I tried to play them. The files were MPEG Audio encoded btw.