Xibo for Linux

Xibo for Linux is a Digital Signage Player for Xibo.

It is in its early stages of development and supports a subset of Xibo's overall features. It can be used in production, but should be thoroughly tested with the intended content. It is not recommended to assume that any of Xibo's features will function. Please test yourself to confirm.

To discuss this Player with us, please join our community.

Installation

Installation and upgrade instructions can be found here.

Contributing

We use GitHub Issues to track development and the next milestone is full of issues for which we would happily accept contributions. In addition, if a Xibo feature you want is not mile-stoned, or mile-stoned against a later version, please get in touch if you'd like to work on it. We maintain a Kanban Board to ensure we're not doing overlapping work.

Please check that you're happy for your work to be available under the project licence - the AGPLv3 or later.

Let us know you'd like to contribute by joining our community.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Dan Garner 💼

Alex Harrington 🚇

DanielBW1 🐛

Maxim Ivanov 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

Build

If you would like to work on the Player you can build it locally using the instructions below.

Building from sources

We recommend you use snapcraft to build Xibo.

Building with Snapcraft

• Install snapcraft, making sure you have version 4 or later (snap install snapcraft --classic)
• Clone this repository
• Run snapcraft in the root of the repository
• A .snap file will be created which you can use to install from

Building manually

We're unable to provide any support for building outside of the snapcraft build system. These notes are provided for your information.

NOTE: These libraries can require additional installations if you haven't such. We have tested only with listed libraries versions, however, it can be possible to build with newer or older versions as well.

• cmake>=3.14 cross-platform software for managing the build process
• gtk>=3.22 and gtkmm>=3.22 GUI library and C++ bindings
• glib>=2.56 and glibmm>=2.56 low-level system library written in C and C++ bindings
• gstreamer, gstreamer-base-plugins, gstreamer-good-plugins, gstreamer-bad-plugins>=1.14 multimedia framework for audio/video playback with plugins
• gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-gtk3, gstreamer1.0-gl, gstreamer1.0-vaapi, gstreamer1.0-alsa, gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio needed for running/accelerating video content
• cryptopp=8.1 for crypto utils (RSA, RC4 etc.)
• cryptopp-pemthat is compatible with cryptopp version needed for PEM key format
• zeromq=4.3 distributed messaging
• spdlog=1.4.1 logging library
• gtest=1.8.1 for tests
• webkitgtk>=2.4.10 web content rendering
• Boost.System, Boost.Filesystem, Boost.Date_Time, Boost.Thread=1.70