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

[jedi]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 05:36:31PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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?

    Not really. They even teach us the value of code reuse in school. '-)