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From: Steve Kenton <skenton@ou.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:21:33 -0500
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] tovid: new package
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On 03/18/2015 11:47 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Steve Kenton,
> 

> Essentially, anything that isn't obvious generally needs a comment
> somewhere :-)
Understood
> 
>>>> +TOVID_SITE = http://tovid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tovid
>>>
>>> Google Code is closing. Is there a better location for this project? Or
>>> is the project planning to move to some other place in the near future ?
>> Did not know that, will investigate.
> 
> Well, I think it's fine for now, the source URL can always be changed
> later when the project moves elsewhere. There have been some changes
> recently (today, yesterday, etc.) so the project seems to be maintained.
Here's what the maintainer had to say in a post yesterday:

"As well google code is shutting down, so I am in process of moving to a
new repo. More news to follow re this."

> 
> BTW, I don't remember if I asked: why would you want to run something
> such as tovid on an embedded system? What's the final use case?
Rack mount video system, records and burns dvds on the fly.

Steve

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
>