Bug 503252

Summary:	Review Request: freepv - Immersive panorama viewer
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruno Postle <bruno>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	fedora-package-review, kwizart, notting, susi.lehtola
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Description Bruno Postle 2009-05-29 23:16:17 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Susi Lehtola 2009-05-30 09:56:57 UTC

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).

Comment 2 Bruno Postle 2009-05-30 10:15:54 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2009-07-01 15:50:10 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Bruno Postle 2009-07-01 16:25:16 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2009-07-01 16:38:25 UTC

Okay, please cc'd wherever this package ends. I would be interested in it given the GSoC link at videolan.org

Comment 6 Bruno Postle 2009-07-01 20:19:35 UTC

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.