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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011181.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011181.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4a7d47a03 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-January/011181.html @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20%5BRFC%5D%20Moving%20various%20packages/codecs%20to%20tainted&In-Reply-To=%3C4F0B745A.3010702%40mageia.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="011186.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="011182.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted</H1> + <B>Anssi Hannula</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20%5BRFC%5D%20Moving%20various%20packages/codecs%20to%20tainted&In-Reply-To=%3C4F0B745A.3010702%40mageia.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted">anssi at mageia.org + </A><BR> + <I>Tue Jan 10 00:12:26 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011186.html">[Mageia-dev] Fwd: Gtk+ 3.3.7+ bugfix will BREAK Xorg (before 1.12) unless patch is applied +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011182.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11181">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11181">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11181">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11181">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Hi all! + +As I've noted in some previous emails, our core/tainted media codec +split-up is currently arbitrary without any specific logic. + +As far as I remember, the tainted policy is that codecs for formats that +are claimed to be covered by patents should be there. + +Per that policy, at least the AC-3/DTS/MP3/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.264/VC-1 +decoders and AC-3/MPEG-2/MPEG-4 encoders we have in core should be moved +to tainted section. Note that this will make most current +.mkv/.avi/.mp4/.mov/.wmv/.mp3 files unplayable without packages from +tainted section. + +I've covered the other-distributions status earlier [1] in more detail, +but a quick rehash: Fedora doesn't have these codecs at all, +Debian/Ubuntu ship them in Main section, Arch has them as well. + +The (probably slightly incomplete) list of source packages that need +some action (completely or partially moved to tainted) can be found below. + +Shall I implement the move of the packages? +(after the current ISOs process is done) + +Needs to be moved completely to tainted: + +a52dec - AC-3 decoding library +mad - MP3 decoding library +mpeg2dec - MPEG-2 video decoding library +ocaml-mad - uses mad +pymad - uses mad +vdr-plugin-dvd - uses a52dec +vdr-plugin-mp3 - uses mad + +Needs to be moved to tainted or to implement two separate builds: + +alsaplayer - uses mad +audacity - uses mad +k3b - uses mad +kwave - uses mad +lastfm-player - uses mad +libextractor - uses mpeg2dec +libtunepimp - uses mad +mixxx - uses mad +mjpegtools - uses mpeg2dec +normalize - uses mad +qtractor - uses mad +scummvm - uses mad +sox - uses mad +stepmania - uses mad +stratagus2.1 - uses mad +streamripper - uses mad +xbmc - uses mpeg2dec + +Already has dual build, but needs more stuff to be tainted-only: + +avidemux - AC-3 dec+enc, DTS dec, MPEG-2 dec/enc, MPEG-4 dec/enc, + H.264 dec, uses mpeg2dec, VC-1 dec +cdrdao - uses mad +ffmpeg - AC-3 dec+enc, DTS dec, MPEG-2 dec/enc, MPEG-4 dec/enc, + H.264 dec, VC-1 dec +gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg - as above +gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad - uses mpeg2dec +gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly - uses mpeg2dec +mpd - uses mad +mplayer - AC-3 dec+enc, DTS dec, MPEG-2 dec/enc, MPEG-4 dec/enc, + H.264 dec, VC-1 dec +vlc - uses mad, a52dec, mpeg2dec +xine-lib1.2 - uses mad + + +I didn't include in the above list several formats: +- ASF (no active licesing program IIRC, Fedora ships it as well) +- MPEG-2 TS (apparently even Fedora ships them, dunno if oversight, + though) +- H.263 (no active licensing program IIRC, relatively obscure when +compared to others) + + +[1] <A HREF="https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101012/001084.html">https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101012/001084.html</A> + +-- +Anssi Hannula +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011186.html">[Mageia-dev] Fwd: Gtk+ 3.3.7+ bugfix will BREAK Xorg (before 1.12) unless patch is applied +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011182.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11181">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11181">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11181">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11181">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |