On Saturday 20 February 2010 01:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andres Mejia <mcita...@gmail.com> > > * Package name : mythtv > Version : 0.22 > Upstream Author : Isaac Richards <i...@po.cwru.edu> > * URL : http://www.mythtv.org/ > * License : GPL-2 > Programming Lang: C, C++, Perl, Python, > Description : A personal video recorder application > > MythTV is a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) application that implements the > following, and more, with a unified graphical interface: > > - Basic 'live-tv' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV. > - Video compression using RTjpeg or MPEG-4 > - Program listing retrieval using XMLTV > - Themable, semi-transparent on-screen display > - Electronic program guide > - Scheduled recording of TV programs > - Resolution of conflicts between scheduled recordings > - Basic video editing > > NOTE: The old ITP (bug #311367) has long been closed and the > pkg-mythtv-maintainers team seem to be dead (they haven't responded to an > email I've sent some time ago [1]). This will be another attempt at > getting MythTV into Debian. I will be basing the packaging from the > packages that are currently distributed through Ubuntu. > > Some work has already been done towards getting mythtv into Debian. Take a > look at > Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mythtv.git > Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/mythtv.git > > For a start, I've already implemented a way for mythtv to build and run > with system libraries for ffmpeg, version >= 4:0.6~~svn20100124-1, which > will be the next ffmpeg upstream version to be uploaded. Next would be to > have mythtv work with FFMpeg from the 0.5 branch in SVN (like the current > packages in sid). This would than follow with having mythtv use libmp3lame > via dlopen. There's also an interest upstream to use vorbis as a > replacement/alternative to mp3. > > 1. > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mythtv-maintainers/2009-June/ > 000532.html >
Just to be clear, I don't mean this to be replacing the current packaging from Ubuntu solely to make it work for Debian. I intend the packaging to be configurable so that the appropriate configure options, build dependencies, and so on will be implemented for Debian and Ubuntu. I do look forward to working with you all :) -- Regards, Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
