Re: [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(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
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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