Bug#445366: RFP: yauap -- simple gstreamer based audio player (with amarok integration over dbus)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : yauap
Version : 0.2.1
Upstream Author : Sascha Sommer
* URL : http://www.nongnu.org/yauap/
* License : GNU LGPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : simple gstreamer based audio player
Yauap is a simple commandline audio player based on the GStreamer multimedia
framework. There is also a DBus interface that allows yauap to act as a
backend for the Amarok audio player. Yauap is free software.
Rationale:
Amarok dropped it's gstreamer backend[1] a while ago. Novell announced
"out-of-the-box" support for mp3 decoding[2] in Amarok and Banshee, which has
previously been lacking because of unlicensed mp3 patents preventing
distribution of such software. This brought my attention to the solution,
yauap....
With yauap Amarok will be able to use the mp3 decoder plugin for gstreamer
which Fluendo has properly received patent licenses for. This way other
legally-questionable alternatives available in Debian can be avoided.
Anyone packaging this should probably be familiar with Amarok and work
closely with its maintainers.
[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/91-Backends,-Phonon,-GStreamer.html
[2]: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=325
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Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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