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
