[DVBCUT-devel] Qt4 port and further directions

[Wolfgang Baron]

Am 16.02.2014 21:54, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Wolfgang Baron <Wolfgang.Baron at gmx.net> wrote:
>> On 04/20/2013 08:04 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Wolfgang Baron <Wolfgang.Baron at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I started porting dvbcut from Qt3 to Qt4 on 2013-03-29, based on the
>>>> most current svn sources late at night in my free time using mercurial
>>>> for storing the history. My first aim was to port dvbcut to Qt4 and add
>>>> multiple source videos.
>>> Please let me in the role of one of the Debian/Ubuntu package
>>> maintainers of the dvbcut package say you a big, big thank you for
>>> working on that. Qt3 is really a showstopper for distribution
>>> use-cases.
>> Now I know what you must be going through. This was my first Qt3->Qt4
>> port and I hope it will be my last :)
>>> I also wanted to point you out to the patches that we apply in Debian
>>> to the dvbcut package:
>>>
>>> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/dvbcut/0.5.4+svn178-3
>>>
>>> Maybe you find one or the other patch useful, espc. the gcc 4.7 and
>>> Libav 9 patches.
>>>
>>> Please do not hesitate to write me an email if you have any questions.
>>>
>> Thank you for your helpful information. That was exactly what I was
>> looking for. I will try to make this project as easy to package as
>> possible and I will appreciate any help with accomplishing that. First
>> of all, I will have to get the project up and running, and then I will
>> definately contact you.
>>
>> Cheers,
> Hi Wolfgang.
>
> I wonder how is it going with dvbcut? Are you still working on it?
>
> In debian, we are currently trying to move to libav10, and dvbcut
> fails to compile against it:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739220
>
> Before spending too much time on dvbcut, I wonder if it made sense to
> keep dvbcut in Debian? We currently carry quite a number of patches:
> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/dvbcut/0.5.4+svn178-4 that
> really should go upstream.
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Reinhard
Hi Reinhard,

I have DVBCut running under Qt4 and Qt5, but like Olaf Dietsche points
out, Sven Over, who is the only one, who can transfer the Sourceforge
project to anyone else, does not react at all to any kind of
communication attempt. I guess I will have to relaunch the whole program
with a new name.

At the moment, I am slowly making the code more Qt-ish and giving it a
more usual GUI and the capability to mix several input files.

I spent a lot of time thinking about what to do with the ffmpeg related
code. The performance is nice, but the API has a playground stability.
So I will probably copy some arbitrary version into my own project and
update it from time to time, so that I will only have to keep code for
one version of the ffmpeg API.

I did not see much point in making fast progress, as most Linux
distributions still ship Qt4 with the Qt3 compatibility module. Are you
saying it cannot ship with debian anymore at all? If that is so, I will
concentrate on producing a release (and hope for some help of a packager
to make my project packager-friendly).

Kind regards,

Wolfgang Baron