Andres: Additionally; i'd recommend you do this for a 0.23 based build. They're doing RC next week and targeting release next month, so it would make more sense to be able to support that (especially since patches on top of / replacing ffmpeg will change significantly I expect)
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:01, Mario Limonciello <supe...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi Andres: > > I appreciate this effort! If we can really see this to a reality, I'll > gladly help push more of the ubuntu specific things that are making mythtv a > good experience on Ubuntu up to Debian. > > I'm a little worried however on using the system ffmpeg. Upstream frowns > upon this currently, so I think it's best to make sure that the solution > that is developed has their approval / works properly. Solving the > dlopen'ing of lame may be a better short term goal with upstream. > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 00:56, Andres Mejia <mcita...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-mythtv mailing list >> ubuntu-myt...@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mythtv >> > > > > -- > Mario Limonciello > supe...@gmail.com > -- Mario Limonciello supe...@gmail.com
