help required for thoggen

[Rakesh Pandit]

http://thoggen.net/
Can we have it in fedora. It rips DVD and supports Ogg/Theora (supported).
Later on they are planning to add support to AVI/divx/mpeg4 And the
required gstream codecs are on Livna or RPMFusion

The program is very good and useful. So, I wanted it in.
I am not sure about whether it legally acceptable?

Comments ?

-- 
rakesh

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 24.10.2008 09:26, Rakesh Pandit wrote:
>  http://thoggen.net/
>  Can we have it in fedora. It rips DVD and supports Ogg/Theora (supported).
>  Later on they are planning to add support to AVI/divx/mpeg4 And the
>  required gstream codecs are on Livna or RPMFusion
>  
>  The program is very good and useful. So, I wanted it in.
>  I am not sure about whether it legally acceptable? 
Just FYI, thoggen is in RPM Fusion (came from freshrpms), so that 
package might be a good base for a Fedora package in case thoggen is 
acceptable in Fedora.

Ohh, and of course I'm all for moving packages from RPM Fusion to Fedora 
if possible. Xine is also in RPM Fusion, but might be acceptable in 
Fedora as well (we already have xine-lib in Fedora); somebody just needs 
to take a closer look and submit it for review; the maintainers of xine 
in freshrpms and livna afaics just didn't get around to drive that forward.

CU
knurd

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 24 October 2008 at 09:26, Rakesh Pandit wrote:
>  http://thoggen.net/
>  Can we have it in fedora. It rips DVD and supports Ogg/Theora (supported). 
AFAIK decoding MPEG-2 is not allowed in Fedora yet. AC3/A52 probably too.
DTS definitely isn't. However, MP2 is patent-free already, I think.
Anyway, without MPEG-2 and at least AC3 you can't "rip" DVDs, so I
don't
think it can go into Fedora if it is to be usable at all.

>  Later on they are planning to add support to AVI/divx/mpeg4 And the
>  required gstream codecs are on Livna or RPMFusion
>  
>  The program is very good and useful. So, I wanted it in.
>  I am not sure about whether it legally acceptable? 
fedora-legal-list might be a better place to ask.

Regards,
R.

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[Tom Callaway]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 18:28 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>  However, MP2 is patent-free already, I think. 
You think incorrectly. ;)

~spot