Bug#570611: [ubuntu-mythtv] Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Since it's a git server, is it possible to import upstream svn instead?
Yes it is, since you can just use git-svn.
> Maybe would that work better and allow pulling in their commits more
> easily?
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:43, Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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@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@gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> 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-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@gmail.com
>> >
>>
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>> Regards,
>> Andres
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Andres Mejia
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