[ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 16:43:16 GMT 2010


On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:50:04 Mario Limonciello wrote:
> 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)

OK. I'll use the orig tarball from Ubuntu than, at least up until upstream 
delivers tarballs for the RC packages.

> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:01, Mario Limonciello <superm1 at 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 <mcitadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Saturday 20 February 2010 01:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote:
> >> > Package: wnpp
> >> > Severity: wishlist
> >> > Owner: Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
> >> >
> >> > * Package name    : mythtv
> >> >   Version         : 0.22
> >> >   Upstream Author : Isaac Richards <ijr at 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-Jun
> >>e/
> >>
> >> > 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
> >>
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> > --
> > Mario Limonciello
> > superm1 at gmail.com
> 

-- 
Regards,
Andres



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