From: Matthias H. <ma...@ms...> - 2006-11-24 15:54:17
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As most probably remember, there has been some discussion recently about patent and loyalty issues with respect to codecs, and that xine-ui still uses MPEG for its main logo. At SUSE we use a png for that for a long time now, with no apparent side effects. In fact, the only changes are made to configure.ac, xine-bugreport, and xine-check.sh.in for the logo filename, nothing else. Of course it has to be checked that CVS treats .png files as binary. I would suggest that we exchange xine-ui_logo.mpv with the according xine-ui_logo.png now, as we're getting closer to a release. I would do that if there's at least some agreement on this issue :) Thanks Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mh...@su...> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ ma...@ms... Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de |
From: Diego 'F. <fla...@ge...> - 2006-11-24 16:00:37
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On Friday 24 November 2006 16:54, Matthias Hopf wrote: > At SUSE we use a png for that for a long time now, with no apparent side > effects. In fact, the only changes are made to configure.ac, > xine-bugreport, and xine-check.sh.in for the logo filename, nothing > else. Of course it has to be checked that CVS treats .png files as > binary. Has at least one disadvantage actually, that the image demuxer is not alway= s=20 built, while Mpeg2 is... But should really be minimal. =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=F2 - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ... |
From: Darren S. <li...@yo...> - 2006-11-24 18:53:26
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I demand that Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò may or may not have written... > On Friday 24 November 2006 16:54, Matthias Hopf wrote: >> At SUSE we use a png for that for a long time now, with no apparent side >> effects. In fact, the only changes are made to configure.ac, >> xine-bugreport, and xine-check.sh.in for the logo filename, nothing else. Much the same could be done for gxine. >> Of course it has to be checked that CVS treats .png files as binary. It doesn't, but that's not a problem: $ cvs add -kb <file> > Has at least one disadvantage actually, that the image demuxer is not > always built, while Mpeg2 is... That's a good reason for not making the change, I'd say. OTOH, I've come across one instance where the MPEG2 demuxers aren't included in the base package - see "Gxine suddenly broken" in xine-user (msgid <455...@ep...>). Conclusion: supply both, and make it a compile-time switch as to which is used and installed (of course, if a suitable demuxer isn't present for one, force use of the other). -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. If it isn't broken, break it then charge for repair. |
From: Bastien N. <ha...@ha...> - 2006-11-24 19:29:10
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On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 18:36 +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 may or may not have written... <snip> > OTOH, I've come across one instance where the MPEG2 demuxers aren't inc= luded > in the base package - see "Gxine suddenly broken" in xine-user (msgid > <455...@ep...>). >=20 > Conclusion: supply both, and make it a compile-time switch as to which = is > used and installed (of course, if a suitable demuxer isn't present for = one, > force use of the other). I would just consider it a packaging bug if none of the two image demuxers/decoders weren't available. --=20 Bastien Nocera <ha...@ha...>=20 |
From: Darren S. <li...@yo...> - 2006-11-24 19:53:03
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I demand that Matthias Hopf may or may not have written... > At SUSE we use a png for that for a long time now, with no apparent side > effects. Generated from xine-ui_logo.mpv, or from the source from which that was generated? If the former, JPEG would be a better choice due to the image already being lossily compressed, and if the latter, then placing that in CVS would be a good idea. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. Ingres is not a necessary precursor to Egress. |