Greetings, My real name is Andy, and I just went through the RPMFusion crash course for submitting my first package, zoneminder. https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4393 I am part of the upstream zoneminder development team, and currently manage zmrepo.zoneminder.com. At the moment, zmrepo is the only third party repo with all of zoneminder's dependencies found in one place. If permitted, I would eventually like to move the zoneminder package to RPMFusion. Additionally, I've got to find new homes for several of zoneminder's dependencies as well. I listed these in the bug report above. I don't expect this to be a fast process. Some of you may know that zoneminder currently exists in the Fedora 25 repo. I have been in discussion with the Fedora packaging team to have it removed, moving forward. Because the surveillance industry has adopted h264 as the defacto streaming standard, zoneminder does not belong in the Fedora repo. Today, zoneminder will build w/o ffmpeg/h264 support but that makes it incompatible with nearly all modern ip cameras. In any case, I'm getting help from Fedora, but I also need someone from RPMFusion to sponsor. Anyone willing?

Hi Xavier, The conversation with Fedora was in an email conversation. For lack of a better place, I've put the conversation here for review: https://gist.github.com/knnniggett/87962ab97a6ffbc139083b07d0522231 I'll ping Chuck regarding this conversation so we can get him into it if needed. ZoneMinder searches for and links against ffmpeg & vlc headers, if it finds them, during build time. Adding ffmpeg/vlc after the fact doesn't work currently because these get flagged as not present during the build. Consequently, the code, which makes the api calls to those libraries, will not be present in any of zoneminder's executables. I don't currently know of a simple way to separate zoneminder into the pieces requiring h264 and the pieces that do not. Perhaps there is something I am not thinking of at the moment so feel free to continue the conversation.

I didn't mean to overstate my sponsorship with Fedora. It was more of a casual "hey I'll sponsor you if you need sponsorship" sort of thing. I'm learning this as I go, and I'm just beginning to get involved with EPEL, Fedora, and RPMFusion.