XBMC packages

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2009/11/30 Chris Nolan <chris at cenolan.com>:
> Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>>
>> 2009/11/30 Chris Nolan <chris at cenolan.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> There are some relevant tickets in their trac:
>>>
>>> http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7754 (includes a patch to make xbmc work
>>> with python 2.6 - I haven't verified or even looked at this patch yet)
>>>
>>> http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7785 (patch to fix a python 2.6 crash)
>>>
>>
>> Thoses part are rather new, That would be better to add them so that
>> will be part of the QA and the review.
>>
>
> I am trying to contact the creator of those patches and see if he can give
> some more info on Python 2.6 and XBMC. I am not aware of a current pending
> review for XBMC?
>
>>> Also a couple of other potential problems with XBMC and RPM Fusion:
>>>
>>> 1) We have to exclude libdvdcss support :(
>>>
>>
>> This can be kicked out as this library is meant to be dlopened by
>> libdvdread
>>
>
> Can you explain what this means in terms of building XBMC with DVD support?
>
>>> 2) RPM Fusion ffmpeg doesn't inlcude libfaac support :(
>>>
>>
>> so nor XBMC from RPMFusion, but this feature shouldn't be needed by
>> anyone over flac, or ogg support isn't it !
>>
>> Nicolas (kwizart)
>>
>
> I wouldn't miss faac support but it seems a shame as we have it in non-free,
> so why not put ffmpeg in non-free too? Or put ffmpeg in both free and
> non-free repos with faac support in the non-free version?
That's not a matter of choice, ffmpeg with faac will will not be
redistributable by anyone (including XBMC team actually).
The long term plan is probably to have ffmpeg to dlopen faac. (as this
used to be with faad some time ago).

Nicolas (kwizart)