Bug#570611: ITP: mythtv -- A personal video recorder application

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hey Andres,

Am 20.02.2010 07:25, schrieb Andres Mejia:
> 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.

thanks for your attempt to resurrect MythTV in Debian!

> 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.

That's great news. However, I believe it would be easier to replace 
libmp3lame with libtwolame (a library that implements encoding to MPEG 
1 Layer *2*, free of patent threats and already included in Debian), 
because its API has been designed to be as close to LAME's as possible.

Cheers,
Fabian


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