Kaffeine's future

[pritam.ghanghas at gmail.com]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Am Montag, 9. Dezember 2013 schrieb Mario Fux KDE ML :
>>
>> Am Montag, 02. Dezember 2013, 18.34:15 schrieb Christoph Pfister:
>>> > Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Good morning Christoph
>>>
>>> > I know I should have done this step earlier. After taking over this
>>> > project from Christophe Thommeret long ago and doing a lot of
>>> > interesting stuff, I've been busy with real life in the past months
>>> > (years) and the situation will not change in the future. As I'm unable
>>> > to maintain Kaffeine in an appropriate manner, I've decided to abandon
>>> > the project.
>>>
>>> Too bad to hear but thanks a lot for your past work! I watched TV hours
>>> with
>>> Kaffeine and used it a lot. So thanks for your work and Kaffeine.
>>>
>>> > Therefore I'm asking whether someone is interested in taking over
>>> > maintainership; I've listed the current state of the project at the
>>> > end of this mail. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to deal with
>>> > patches earlier [ sorry guys! ], so I don't have a logical candidate
>>> > or so. But if somebody is willing to take over [ you should know a bit
>>> > about Qt and KDE and preferably have some Dvb / Atsc equipment at hand
>>> > ], I will try to support the handover.
>>>
>>> Depending on where you are on this planet I could send you a DVB-S card
>>> to
>>> test and port Kaffeine.
>>>
>>> Christoph:
>>> What do you think of migrating the code and mailing lists (etc.) from
>>> sourceforge to KDE infrastructure?
>>>
>>> Or would it even make sense to merge Kaffeine with the Plasma Media
>>> Center?
>>>
>>>
>> I thought of this , too. I think TV support would be awesome to have in
>> PMC as well and Kaffeine was always the only working solution for Linux I
>> found so far.
>>
>
> This is the most wanted feature in PMC as of today as there is still no
> plan of implementation because the developers do not have DVB equipment,
> plus the only way to get TV in their region is through set-top-boxes whose
> output is using cables like these
> http://img.alibaba.com/photo/259155234/3_5mm_Plug_3_RCA_Video_Audio_Cable.jpg. Is that what the DVB/ATSC equipment accept?
>

No DVB equipment will take a coaxial cable and software will have to
control the tuner to tune to different digital channels on it. I am not
sure how the decryption keys and other things are handled. Generally
vendors and providers are very opaque and very opensource unfriendly. But
my exposure to these things have been very limited.

>
> So, in addition to taking up Kaffeine if someone has the resources to
> implement that in PMC, we shall offer you dozens of cookies :)
>
>  Just my 2 Rappen
>>> Mario
>>>
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Christoph
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > - Last released version (QT4 / KDE 4): Kaffeine 1.2.2 on 2011-04-04.
>>> >
>>> > This should still be stable enough for many purposes.
>>> >
>>> > - Bug tracker: https://bugs.kde.org/
>>> >
>>> > - Git repository: KDE extragear;
>>> >
>>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/multimedia/kaffeine/repository
>>> >
>>> > There is a transition from xine to vlc going on; needs some love.
>>> >
>>> > - Mailing lists / releases: hosted at sourceforge.
>>> >
>>> > - Home page: http://kaffeine.kde.org/ which is down at the moment (but
>>> > can be reactivated if someone takes care of it); archived version:
>>> > http://web.archive.org/web/20130613232503/http://kaffeine.kde.org/
>>> >
>>> > - Varia: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org
>>> >
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Regards,
pritam
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