audio/video software
I apologize in advance if this is the wrong list to post to. I tried posting/asking through the fedora-join mailing list and got no response at all. I'm doing some research for an article on patent unencumbered Open Source software at: https://schoolforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Patents_and_Open_Source Is anyone currently working on software that fits this category? For example, I've been looking at the source code for xine-lib-1.1.21-pruned.tar.xz. It hasn't been updated in a while and a newer version of xine in source control and Sourceforge has support for webm and some other useful formats. Is anyone looking into adding webm support to the pruned version of xine? I think I have the pruning script pretty much updated for the latest version of the library. Still working through some patches to get the library to compile without the patent encumbered code. (Latest version is more dependent on ffmpeg and related libraries than the previous version was, but it should build without it with some patching.) Is anyone else working on a project along these lines? Also couldn't a library like smpeg be useful for playing certain types of videos if mp3 code was pruned? Just wondering if there are any developers working on these sorts of projects or related ones for Fedora. It would be nice to compare notes and possibly share patches/scripts. If anyone has other resources or projects or documentation they can recommend for the wiki article, suggestions would be very much appreciated. I'm sure they'd be of help to educators concerned with these issues. Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Re: audio/video software
Kevin Kofler wrote: >xine-lib 1.2 depends on a library that is part of FFmpeg (libavutil) for >everything, and thus it was decided to retire xine-lib in Fedora entirely. >It is now shipped only in RPM Fusion. (We decided that it was not worth >trying to split FFmpeg into pieces and package libavutil separately from >libavcodec, which definitely cannot go into Fedora.) Good to know. Thanks for the information. I'm still planning on giving it a shot to remove the ffmpeg pieces or at least attempt to backport webm and some other support to an earlier version. Don't know if the xine project will accept the patches if I get the latest version working with an option to turn off/remove ffmpeg support, but the project certainly looks doable. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Re: audio/video software
Kevin Kofler wrote: >Please search the list archives before proposing such a thing. I apologize if I've offended you, but I have every intention of continuing with the project. I simply asked what the status of a patent unencumbered version of libxine was on Fedora on behalf of an educational project I'm working with. The educational project is not Fedora based. It's for educators everywhere using a variety of systems (Linux, Mac, Windows). I think it's an admirable goal to encourage Open Source in education. However, if one can't legally create videos or play them back without running into legal issues, how does one encourage schools to use Open Source and non-proprietary formats? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
