Compiling xbmc against jpeg-6b in a custom location

enkil

Since I upgraded to jpeg-7, skins in xbmc have slowed down considerably. As I have jpeg-compat installed I was wondering if there is a simple hack to compile xbmc against jpeg-6b.

Can I compile jpeg-6b manually and install it to e.g. /opt/jpeg-6b and compile xbmc against that version of jpeg? If that's possible, I would start xmbc with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 and (hopefully) not suffer from the slow skins anymore.

Is that possible without changing the makefile(s) of xbmc?

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

The LD_PRELOAD will probably work without recompiling xbmc. Try compiling libjpeg6 manually and put it in /usr/local/lib/. If it works, it works.

enkil · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

I am compiling xbmc with a modified ebuild, so I guess putting stuff in /usr/local doesn't have any effect. I can't use the LD_PRELOADed version of jpeg-6b if I compile xbmc against jpeg-7 since there were ABI changes.

Anyway, I worked around it by unmerging jpeg-7 and jpeg-compat, merging jpeg-6b, merging xbmc and upgrading to jpeg-7...

kali · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Rome, Italy

but if you recompile a new svn you get the same problem

SamuliSuominen · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:

meh! it's still a problem?

i wonder what there is so special about xbmc that it's the only program in entire portage that's having issues with jpeg.

kali · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Rome, Italy

yes, still a problem

xbmc developer use ubuntu as reference and 9.10 and next 10.4 stay with 6b, so their priority to fix this bug is very very low :/

SamuliSuominen · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject:

kali · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Rome, Italy

no difference, 100% cpu for ~5'' then the background is loaded correctly