[mythtv-users] MythTV on Raspberry PI 2...

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 04:36:31 UTC 2015


On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:11:27PM +0000, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 02/02/15 20:45, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> >On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jason Sullivan <jason0x21 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>... Is it just a matter....
>> >
>> >Excellent.  Another individual suggesting they will be contributing
>> >a MythTV feature patch.  Perhaps you and Nick should work
>> >together on the patch (to avoid duplicate effort).
>> >
>> >Or do you mean "is it just a matter" of a skilled someone
>> >ELSE (re)factoring some code with a completely different set
>> >of presumptions and internal APIs to write some complicated
>> >code?
>> >
>> >If it "is just a matter" of trivial work, perhaps you could choose
>> >the gstreamer video decoding library, which already supports
>> >almost all of the existing SoC decoders (openmax, vivante,
>> >vaapi, mali, vdpau).  One API to rule them all?
>> >   Obligatory xkcd ref:  http://xkcd.com/927/
>> >
>> Really, really irritating reply.
>>
>> All the guy was asking was if that was a possible approach to the
>> problem. Nobody was suggesting that a patch would be forthcoming or
>> even that it was worth doing.
>>
>> Before a patch can be written it is necessary to know if the
>> suggested approach would solve the problem.
>>
>> Try easing up on people sometimes.
>
>    I dunno. Finding some method to "steal code" from XBMC seems like a
> genuis idea. They seem to have a lot more resources and developers. If
> there were anyway to snarf their stuff, it seems like a that would
> ultimately be a net gain.

is it stealing if you use code from GPL2 project and add it to another
GPL2 project?


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