Qt4 port and further directions

[Wolfgang Baron]

Am 18.02.2014 14:40, schrieb Olaf Dietsche:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
> There is a Qt4 port at https://github.com/nextghost/dvbcut-qt4, though I
> don't know how mature this is.
>
> I just uploaded a quick hack to make dvbcut build with the current
> ffmpeg 2.1.3, see https://github.com/olafdietsche/dvbcut/tree/ffmpeg-2.1.3.
>
> I don't know how far away libav10 is from ffmpeg. Maybe, this helps with
> your effort to go to libav10.
Maybe you can tell me, whether ffmpeg and libav10 are still the way to
go for ultimate performance, or whether I have a better alternative for Qt?
> Past attempts to reach Sven in order to take over dvbcut at Sourceforge,
> haven't been successful, AFAIK. So, I would say, you must either
> maintain your own repository or abandon dvbcut in Debian.
I am suffering from the same fate. I have tried to contact him in every
possible way on every possible channel, but he is just ignoring every
communication attempt. Like I said earlier, my current idea is to create
a new, similar project on bitbucket or sourceforge.

Cheers,

Wolfgang Baron