[Bug 299] Review request: me-tv - Digital television viewer for GNOME

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299





--- Comment #15 from Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz>  2009-02-17 14:25:00 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> DVB-? technology uses patented algorithms. It does not matter if the decoder is
> required by the player (or the library) or by the Me TV application. Users
> would be confused why the application does not work.

User of Fedora usually expects problems with multimedia stuff.

> Kaffeine's DVB support does not work without xine-lib-extras-freeworld (ask Rex
> Dieter). But is seems acceptable in this case as the DVB support is only a part
> of provided functions.
>
> All other engines are in the *experimental* state - it is clearly stated in
> configure.ac (configure); no GUI configuration is provided for experimental
> engines. You should know it when you package it.
> The most tested experimental engine is the libvlc based one and it has still
> several issues. Even the xine based default engine experiences issues towards
> PulseAudio. The GStreamer based engine is only a start up skeleton.

I am fully aware that the status for additional engines is experimental, but
few weeks ago they didn't even exist. For me it is a progress into the right
direction. And it is to let gstreamer to find the required codec itself via the
integration with PackageKit. There are other ways (and even legal the
respective countries) to get the codecs besides using stuff from RPM Fusion.


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