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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:38:57PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> 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?

MythTV includes (or did at the time I maintained it) a copy of ffmpeg, which
was at one point not permitted into Debian.  It is included now, but I am
not aware of the reasons for its exclusion, nor the changes which took place
in order for it to be allowed.  Just something to check into when
considering MythTV.

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 - mdz