[Bug 459979] Review Request: mlt - Toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players, transcoders

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Dan Dennedy <dan at dennedy.org> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Dan Dennedy <dan at dennedy.org>  2008-10-13 13:20:34 EDT ---
I am the maintainer of MLT. Thank you for packaging it for Fedora. My
feedback...

It is possible to make a LGPL version if that is what you really want to do.
You probably have to remove sources from your source RPM to do so. All
GPL-based plugins are identified by an empty file named "gpl" in their
subdirectory (under mlt/src/modules). Also, the albino, humperdink, miracle,
and inigo src subdirectories are GPL.

I don't really know the Fedora guidelines, but Development/Libraries seems more
appropriate than Development/Tools even though the description uses the word
"toolkit."

It should be able to build on PPC, but that is not regularly tested as it has
not been convenient for me. Maybe I can use some resource at SourceForge for
that. More than likely it is something trivial. x86-dependent code should be
optional, and the goal of the configure scripts is to detect PPC and disable
things appropriately.

Regarding compilation optimization flags, another user said -O4 was causing
segfault on x86-64 (pending my confirmation), and I may fall back to -O2 for
the next release. I recognize Fedora's policy, but there are many also building
from source who would like optimization. Also, I agree to remove stripping from
future releases.

Finally, while I do not consider "miracle" to be generic, I do agree it is
somewhat common and certainly unqualified. In fact, I recommend that you do not
not install miracle or albino or humperdink. 'inigo' is the core utility that
MLT users recognize and whose name I would like to keep. miracle is a rather
niche application at this time, and albino and humperdink are companions to
miracle. If you do keep miracle for the sake of convenience, then I do not have
a problem with you prefacing it with 'mlt-', but again, I'd rather not do that
to inigo. Also, I am planning to rename things in the near future while keeping
the "MLT" moniker (Media Lovin' Toolkit). I will take Fedora recommendations
into consideration for the executables.

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