[Bug 500926] Review Request: me-tv - GNOME desktop application for watching digital television

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--- Comment #8 from Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz>  2009-05-15 09:17:11 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > 
> > The problem is not the license, but patents, because without patented codecs
> > the me-tv application is useless.  
> 
> Okey, but where (or on which way) exactly Me TV uses (implements) patented
> codecs? Just I said earlier, all dependencies needed by this soft are from

It either calls an external application (like Xine) or is linked with a library
that does the decoding (ffmpeg via libxine, etc). You must have the backend to
actually see anything and the backend decodes MPEG streams.

> Fedora repo, not from RPM Fusion (except Xine itself, but I do not know yet,
> works Me TV without Xine RPM package or not).

Me-TV can be started without Xine, but cannot be used if using means watching
the TV.

> Are these codecs within the source, if they are why the author of upstream has
> not written copyright information?  

Please read the discussion in my RPM Fusion review request referenced in
comment #3

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