Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application
On Saturday 20 February 2010 01:25:51 Andres Mejia wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name : mythtv
> Version : 0.22
> Upstream Author : Isaac Richards <ijr@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
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