Building omxplayer for RasPi Fedora remix

So, I will explain the process and steps I have encountered in building omxplayer.  I would still like to put this all together in a neatly packaged RPM for easy install, but at the moment, I will share the build process.

Step 1: Make sure you have the appropriate development tools

• yum -y install groupinstall “Development Tools” “Development Libraries”

Step 2: Download the omxplayer source files from https://github.com/wrightrocket/omxplayer

• git clone git://github.com/wrightrocket/omxplayer.git

Step 3: Add the following repository to your system in order to get a buildable version of ffmpeg

• su -c ‘yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-17.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-17.noarch.rpm’
  

Step 4: Download and install required dependencies

• yum -y install pcre pcre-devel libdc1394-devel libva-devel libvdpau-devel openjpeg-devel libvpx-devel boost-build.noarch pcre-tools.armv5tel *libavfilter* boost.armv5tel boost-devel.armv5tel

Step 5: Download and install ffmpeg

• yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

Step 6: Decompress omxplayer in the following directory

• cd /usr/local/src/omxplayer
  

Step 7: Edit files for building

• Edit Makefile.include – line 4 to read
  • CFLAGS += -pipe -mfloat-abi=softfp
  • instead of:
  • CFLAGS += -pipe -mfloat-abi=hard
• Edit line 11 to read
  • TARGETFS        :=usr/local
  • instead of
  • TARGETFS        :=/usr/local

Step 8: Build ffmpeg

• cd /usr/local/src/omxplayer
• make sources
• make
• make dist
• sudo make install

Step 9: Create a symbolic link to overcome libpcre.so.3 cannot be found error

• cd /usr/lib/
• ln -s libpcre.so.0.0.1 libpcre.so.3

Step 10: Run omxplayer

• running omxplayer at this stage will result in a “failed to open vchiq instance” error
• this can be resolved by running:
  • sudo chmod a+rw /dev/vchiq
• to run omxplayer, do the following
• omxplayer <name of file>

The video should play just fine with sound.  To quit playback, press Q on the keyboard.

I will be working on getting this all packed up in the near future.