[Fedora-music-list] Video converter from Official fedora repositories

[Hammad Haleem]

Thanks for your response

I did post the question in the gsoc mailing list but unfortunately, wasn't
able to get good feedback.

Also thanks for a detailed response I will discuss more about this with
the  projeect mentor.
 On 1 Mar 2014 01:42, "Christopher Antila" <crantila at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

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> On 28 February 2014 19:36:08 Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Hammad Haleem wrote:
> > > I need to develop a rest API for publish and convert the videos
> > >
> > > A major what I am facing, I need a free converter for convert any
> format
> > > video in OGV. Even though ffmpeg is the best candidate, but we I cannot
> > > use
> > > it because not is in official Fedora repository, just is in rpmfusion.
> I
> > > am
> > > developing a product that would be deployed on Fedora infra, they only
> > > deploy applications via packages into epel6.
> > >
> > > Can you guys suggest something from official fedora repository ?
> >
> > gstreamer ?
>
> (NB: music@ list readers may not realize this inquiry is related to
> Hammad's
> application for Google Summer of Code).
>
> GStreamer will only work for patented formats after you install additional
> packages from RPMFusion. Ffmpeg is also only available from RPMFusion.
>
> In the context of GSoC, in my opinion, your best bet is to drop the "video
> conversion from any format" feature. You can still make a converter for
> free
> formats, and I support Martin's suggestion of GStreamer. If you use
> GStreamer,
> adding support for patented formats is as easy as getting the packages from
> RPMFusion.
>
> The reason is that, if it's ever permissible to include converters for
> patented media formats in Fedora, you would have to "reverse engineer" the
> format from scratch. I'm not sure reverse engineering a media format is
> possible, never mind for multiple formats, done by one person, during a
> GSoC
> project, when the project is mostly about building a website.
>
> So ask your mentor whether the real deployment could use GStreamer packages
> from RPMFusion in addition to the GStreamer packages already in Fedora.
>
>
> Best of luck!
> Christopher
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