Re: Plasma needs a media player, I suggest Kodi

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2018-03-07 12:11 GMT-03:00 René J.V. Bertin :
> On Wednesday March 07 2018 08:07:29 Rex Dieter wrote:
>> My $0.02, last I checked, it has a hard dependency on ffmpeg (a legal
>> minefield, media codec patents), which makes it not freely redistributable
>> in many jurisdictions (US in particular)
>
> FFmpeg can be built in 3 different ways, with 2 "free" options where it's 
> covered by GPL2, GPL3.

The last patent covering MPEG-2 expired in 13 February 2018. You can
imagine what the situation is for codecs newer than that...

-- 
Nicolás

Re: Plasma needs a media player, I suggest Kodi

[Rex Dieter]

René J.V. Bertin wrote:

>> My $0.02, last I checked, it has a hard dependency on ffmpeg (a legal
>> minefield, media codec patents), which makes it not freely
>> redistributable in many jurisdictions (US in particular)
> 
> FFmpeg can be built in 3 different ways, with 2 "free" options where it's
> covered by GPL2, GPL3.

True, but...
Licensing != Patents

-- Rex

Re: Plasma needs a media player, I suggest Kodi

[René J . V . Bertin]

On Wednesday March 07 2018 08:07:29 Rex Dieter wrote:

> > media center I've used on x86 PC. There is a presence of pirates, but
> > that can be changed.

Really?

> > What does everyone think?

I don't see how this would be Plasma's domain of competence. Kodi (ex XBMC) is 
a big piece of external software that doesn't even use (depend on) KDE.

> My $0.02, last I checked, it has a hard dependency on ffmpeg (a legal 
> minefield, media codec patents), which makes it not freely redistributable 
> in many jurisdictions (US in particular)

FFmpeg can be built in 3 different ways, with 2 "free" options where it's 
covered by GPL2, GPL3.

And it's probably already available on every system that is supposed to be able 
to make more than just a sysbeep noise; Phonon depends on it too (via libVLC).

R.

Re: Plasma needs a media player, I suggest Kodi

[Rex Dieter]

bill engvald wrote:

> In the future, there will be more options for streaming, I'm talking
> about paid services where content is streamed, like TV and on demand
> content.
> 
> Kodi is modular, advanced, and looks good. It's the first complete
> media center I've used on x86 PC. There is a presence of pirates, but
> that can be changed.
> 
> What does everyone think?

My $0.02, last I checked, it has a hard dependency on ffmpeg (a legal 
minefield, media codec patents), which makes it not freely redistributable 
in many jurisdictions (US in particular)

-- rex