[Fedora-packaging] can Blargg's NTSC libraries be included in fedora ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Tue Aug 5 21:51:03 UTC 2008


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:13 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>>> I am wondering if the following video processing libs could be included
>>> in Fedora itself ?
>>> nes_ntsc
>>> sms_ntsc
>>> snes_ntsc
>>> These "perform NTSC video signal processing on an image, giving a result
>>> similar to that of the game console connected to a TV and unlike that of
>>> a simple palette-based image". To do this it would appear to need to
>>> understand the hardware chips used in such consoles, but I find no
>>> mention of patented or so techniques.
>>>
>>> For eg: nes_ntsc, in it's current incarnation, require or BR only Fedora
>>> packages. An out of Fedora game console emulator could use this library
>>> to add 80's realizm to the Emu.
>>>
>>> The author has released under the LGPL v2.1 or later. Would it be
>>> acceptable to be in Fedora ?
>>
>> I see no reason why not.
>>
>> ~spot
>>
> 
> Well in that case, I would like to say: good idea Dabid, go submit them 
> for review!

Tom: Thanks for the quick reply.
Hans: It'll take me a few days to get a chance to check them over, 
thanks for the encouragement ;)

DaveT.




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