Re: Packaging xvattr with other Xv tools
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:34 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> in striving to get Xv working successfully (given its current issues in
> the intel driver), the upstream developers have indicated that a program
> called xvattr could be useful for manipulating Xv properties, such as
> the pipe used for the video display. This would complement the existing
> xvinfo, which simply displays the Xv properties.
>
> xvattr may be found at
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml
> It's GPL so packaging should be safe for us.
>
> I would like to place it into our XSF git (I won't agitate to include it
> upstream - too much of a headache to argue between GPL vs MIT
> licensing).
>
> I think the appropriate place for it would be the same package which
> provides xvinfo.
>
> If no one has any objections, I'll insert it there soon, maybe next
> week.
FWIW, it's been available from http://debian-multimedia.org/ for a
while. Not sure why it never made it into the archive, you might want to
get in touch with Christian Marillat about it.
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