[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] mythtv w/o liblame? (was: Still interested in mythtv inside Debian)

[Drew Scott Daniels]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:22:30AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Drew Scott Daniels <ddaniels at UMAlumni.mb.ca> writes:
> 
> > reopen 311367
> > thanks
> >
> > I'm still interested in mythtv being packaged inside Debian. Beyond the
> > mentioned mp3 issue, I'm not sure what else is keeping the package out.
> > I'm ccing Christian Marillat, Matt Zimmerman and the Alioth mythtv package 
> > list to get more comments about this.
> 
> This is not possible because mythtv need to depends on liblame. I
> think you can close this RFP.
>
How close is this dependency? Is it possible to switch the decoding to
something else? Or how about just have parts of MythTV that don't
require mp3encoding?

Personally, I have alternate means of recording content that I would
like to be able to use the commercial skip stuff on. There's other
MythTV features unrelated to encoding and decoding too that may be worth
packaging for Debian. Not having touched much of the source, I can't say
how easy it would be to split up.

Also Matt Zimmerman mentioned there might be licensing issues?

     Drew Daniels