[mythtv-users] mythtv dropping mysql???

Karl Dietz dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
Wed Oct 22 20:34:59 UTC 2014


On 22.10.2014 19:50, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
>>>>>>> Rich Freeman writes:
>>> You embed ffmpeg today by putting a copy of the code into MythTV, and
>>> you talk about having control over what features the database
>>> supports.  That sounds like doing a cp -r on some portion of mysql and
>>> sticking it in MythTV.  [... more FUD]
>>
>> It sounds like you still haven't googled "MySQL Embedded".
>
> I know what MySQL embedded is.  Just as with any other piece of
> software you can use the system version or you can distribute a
> version in your tarball and install that.  MythTV uses just that
> approach with ffmpeg, embedding their own copy of it in the source
> tarball.  It COULD use the system-provided ffmpeg, but it doesn't (and
> I realize that the bundled copy is slightly tweaked, but as I
> understand it not to a great extent and it is more about having
> control over just what is being linked to).

Please stop posting such crap to this list.

Ffmpeg didn't want our changes back in the days of yore. Then they had
their own fun with a fork. Now we are in the process of slowly sorting
everything out, when many people have long moved on after giving up.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00212.html

Regards,
Karl


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