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Summary: Review Request: freepv - Immersive panorama viewer
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Summary: Review Request: freepv - Immersive panorama viewer Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: bruno@postle.net QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: notting@redhat.com, fedora-package-review@redhat.com Estimated Hours: 0.0 Classification: Fedora
Spec URL: http://bpostle.fedorapeople.org/reviews/freepv/freepv.spec SRPM URL: http://bpostle.fedorapeople.org/reviews/freepv/freepv-0.3.0-1.fc10.src.rpm Description:
This rpm includes two patches from upstream SVN, one for gcc-4.4.0 compilation and another to build the library dynamically.
FreePV is a viewer for QuickTimeVR (QTVR), SPiV, cylindrical, cubic and cylindrical panoramas. The package provides a standalone panorama viewer. Install the freepv-plugin package for a Firefox/Mozilla plugin.
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Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org 2009-05-30 05:56:57 EDT --- This looks like a package that's probably covered with patents, since it's related with QuickTime.
Can we get an opinion from legal? (Blocking FE-LEGAL).
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--- Comment #2 from Bruno Postle bruno@postle.net 2009-05-30 06:15:54 EDT --- Hi the QuickTime .mov container format is openly documented, the problem with patents is related to video codecs such as Sorenson and MPEG.
QTVR isn't video, it is just JPEG compressed images wrapped up in a .mov container. FreePV doesn't implement any codecs, it uses libjpeg for decoding the data.
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Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) kwizart@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) kwizart@gmail.com 2009-07-01 11:50:10 EDT --- FE-Legal remains blocked, do we still need advices ? Searching about patent QuickTimeVR over the web seems to output a weird thing held by iPIX from 1999.
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Bruno Postle bruno@postle.net changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Bruno Postle bruno@postle.net 2009-07-01 12:25:16 EDT --- IPIX made various claims over panorama creation, I'm not aware that panorama viewers were ever threatened.
Since submitting this package I discovered it doesn't compile with the xulrunner in F11, I patched it up but now it fails at runtime - This is something for upstream to fix I think, so I'll close and reopen if a fixed version becomes available.
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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) kwizart@gmail.com 2009-07-01 12:38:25 EDT --- Okay, please cc'd wherever this package ends. I would be interested in it given the GSoC link at videolan.org
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--- Comment #6 from Bruno Postle bruno@postle.net 2009-07-01 16:19:35 EDT --- Just updating the status of this project: VLC is getting QTVR playback via freepv as part GSoC 2009, which was my incentive for submitting freepv. However it looks possible that in order to use the internal VLC QuickTime parser the code will be ported rather than link to libfreepv. It's only mid-term so this isn't certain.
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