Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Hi! I'm the actual maintainer for the gtkpod package. I'm gonna take care of this package because many people are asking me to provide the mp4 support in the gtkpod package actually present in Debian Testing and Unstable archives. Reading [1], it seems like MPL is a license suitable for Debian main archive. I've already been accepted as member of the Debian Multimedia Team and I'm gonna work as much as I can on the packaging process of this library. Thanks a lot for your eventual help with it. mfv [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Mozilla_Public_License_.28MPL.29 -- Ing. Matteo F. Vescovi -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e3e6b17.5020...@revese.it
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gtkpod, in fact, only uses mp4v2's metadata functionality. Unfortunately, taglib is a C++ library and gtkpod is written in C, so porting it to taglib is not an option. Reinhard suggested porting it to libavformat - I couldn't find documentation specifically about its metadata functionality, though, and I'm not sure upstream will agree about adding a dependency on ffmpeg, given how conservative they are. It can be patched for Debian/Ubuntu, at least. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEbBAEBAgAGBQJLH0VlAAoJEDqDNnQ69yYSbDMH+KhRXnKpVtcySIZr3pwCXOS4 5WB0mrdtFMZPr5juYK0Mf0hi0UlG7Et9zLLyHVEiOpf49vlt0/LQ+WyBqepFiOYd Ad9FXYEASv1dQ34CwDIKxEoChQP0aVbUx2G1xOfT6QC5MIB13nD8/zhZcmLrfM+W jSvfy5b+3VdNq6ewttxG3umyLB+mgzY+ni6buHrimGWcUTu51ZuK3rRunCcXp8bq opjanTE5qusuD14w6zxg/YxDeA0KoSlOF89ydiJorxSq1iNWIO+0hvVviJddyOTM 2O7S9wjlCcXsZEYXLIlbXq7q82BSGWSJMjTDLoX5q1RIuMZP+09bn+pfHRDxbg== =+yUR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 10:09 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: The Debian multimedia packages maintainers are still unsure if there are packages that actually make use of this library at all. Interested users, please indicate your interest in this bug and CC our mailing list! faac can use it IIRC but that can never be in Debian ;) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:09:32AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: The Debian multimedia packages maintainers are still unsure if there are packages that actually make use of this library at all. Melodie.app from etoile (new release not yet packaged for Debian, waiting for Clang) uses this library. However, it also links against libavcodec, so I've patched it out as the licenses are incompatible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Yavor Doganov schrieb: Melodie.app from etoile (new release not yet packaged for Debian, waiting for Clang) uses this library. However, it also links against libavcodec, so I've patched it out as the licenses are incompatible. Sebastian Dröge schrieb: faac can use it IIRC but that can never be in Debian ;) So we've got one package where the support for libmp4v2 has to be ripped out because of license incompatibilities and another one which will most probably never enter Debian. Well, I prepared the mp4v2 packages anyway: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/mp4v2.git I think, however, that its license (MPL) makes the package mostly useless for linking against all GPL'ed software - which is, well, quite a lot. If any of the listening DDs find use in this package, please consider uploading anyway. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: greffr...@leat.ruhr-uni-bochum.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Hi, The Debian multimedia packages maintainers are still unsure if there are packages that actually make use of this library at all. Interested users, please indicate your interest in this bug and CC our mailing list! gtkpod needs libmp4v2 to be able to handle aac/mp4 files. Which is the native format for the iPod, so... definitely useful. And I'd *love* to see gtkpod in Debian built with libmp4v2 enabled. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian GNU/Linux Developer - jbla...@debian.org Public key available on http://www.jblache.org - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Am Donnerstag, den 29.10.2009, 18:00 +0100 schrieb Julien BLACHE: gtkpod needs libmp4v2 to be able to handle aac/mp4 files. Which is the native format for the iPod, so... definitely useful. And I'd *love* to see gtkpod in Debian built with libmp4v2 enabled. Fine, but AFAICT gtkpod is licensed under the GPL. Is it OK to link it against a library that is licensed under the MPL? Anyway, pkg-multimedia team mates, would you please consider uploading the package? Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org writes: Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Hi, The Debian multimedia packages maintainers are still unsure if there are packages that actually make use of this library at all. Interested users, please indicate your interest in this bug and CC our mailing list! gtkpod needs libmp4v2 to be able to handle aac/mp4 files. Which is the native format for the iPod, so... definitely useful. And I'd *love* to see gtkpod in Debian built with libmp4v2 enabled. gtkpod in svn do a dlopen for libmp4v2 so ins't a problem. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Fabian Greffrath wrote: I think, however, that its license (MPL) makes the package mostly useless for linking against all GPL'ed software - which is, well, quite a lot. I agree completely. Actually, melodie.app is under a non-copyleft license but of course Debian will distribute it under GPL, since our ffmpeg libs are under GPL. When I mentioned this to upsteeam (that we can't link against libavcodec/libavformat and mp4v2 even if/when the latter is packaged in Debian) they said that it's a distro's problem if the distro ships GPL-contaminated (sic) ffmpeg. FWIW, they just use mp4v2's tags functionality (which was implemented in taglib) and intend to drop the dependency when a new taglib release is made (which I think is already a fact). I humbly suggest to keep mp4v2 on hold and avoid uploading it until there is actually any benefit -- libraries with no reverse dependencies are mostly useless. P.S. When I was investigating this issue (i.e. why mp4v2 is not in Debian) about 2 years ago I vaguely remember an old ITP and a discussion that it cannot be in Debian due to patents concerns. Upstream's homepage at SF (back then) was pretty scary, too. Sorry I can't give any references right now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552705: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, eate, and modify mp4 files
Subject: ITP: mp4v2 -- a library that provides functions to read, create, and modify mp4 files Package: wnpp Owner: Debian multimedia packages maintainers pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: mp4v2 Version : 1.9.1 Upstream Author : Edward Groenendaal ed...@myreflection.org * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/ * License : MPL-1.1 Programming Lang: C++ Description : a library that provides functions to read, create, and modify mp4 files . The MP4v2 library provides an API to create and modify mp4 files as defined by ISO-IEC:14496-1:2001 MPEG-4 Systems. This file format is derived from Apple's QuickTime file format that has been used as a multimedia file format in a variety of platforms and applications. It is a very powerful and extensible format that can accomodate practically any type of media. . MP4v2 was originally bundled with mpeg4ip library, but has been moved into its own maintained library due to a combination of the cessation of support of mpeg4ip and the usefulness of this library on its own. The Debian multimedia packages maintainers are still unsure if there are packages that actually make use of this library at all. Interested users, please indicate your interest in this bug and CC our mailing list! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
