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[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:13:18PM +0200, Pierre Beyssac wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:01:32AM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > >   Kino 0.7.0.
> > >   Kino is an IEEE 1394 DV non-linear video editor.
> > >   Note: IEEE 1394 and V4L are disabled in this port.
> > Could you explain why (shortly)?
> 
> The IEEE 1394 code is totally Linux-specific and requires very
> significant work to port to FreeBSD (which already has fwcontrol(8)
> anyway). The V4L (video4linux) capture code is even more Linux-specific.
> But kino is still very useful as a DV editing tool so the port is
> worth it.

OK, thanks.

> 
> > AFAIK ``patch-xy'' is an old, deprecated naming scheme, superseded by
> > ``patch-path::to::file::to:patch.ext'' one.  Considering large number of
> > patch files for this port, it would be probably hard to "navigate"
> > through all these patches.
> 
> Since most of the patches are crude "#if 0" to disable IEEE 1394
> and V4L code, so I figured it doesn't matter much; split -p ^diff
> came in very handy. If the names are a real problem I can change
> that.

I don't really think renaming is worthwhile; however, it's more likely
that pathes would hit official distribution if they were not just "#if
0"s but careful wrappers (Linux/FreeBSD-aware, at least).

> 
> > Also, did submitter (or you) feed patches back to Kino's authors?
> 
> Of course, I'm going to. Actually there are just a few real bug-fix
> patches (one for X11 SHM support, two others for uninitialized
> pointers...), and I need to check what's in 0.7.1 which was released...
> yesterday.

Cool.  Thank you for bringing more of high-quality multimedia software
like this one into FreeBSD.

./danfe