Bug 190789

Summary: Remove optional dependency of libtunepimp-0.5.3 from kdemultimedia
Product: [Applications] juk Reporter: Taurnil <taurnil.oronar>
Component: generalAssignee: Scott Wheeler <wheeler>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: mpyne, rdieter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Taurnil 2009-04-27 03:12:24 UTC 
Version:           4.2.2 (using KDE 4.2.2)
Compiler:          4.2.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

Remove optional dependency of libtunepimp-0.5.3 from kdemultimedia and use something else. What that something else is I don't know but here is the problem. Mpeg4ip as I understand it is defunct and more or less taken over by http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/. The issue here is libtunepimp fails the make not finding mp4.h because mp4v2 uses mp4v2.h header. I filed a bug report with the libtunepimp folks ( http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/5095 ) but I doubt seriously if it will get fixed. Looking over their bug reports for tunepimp, a great many of the tickets are closed with; 

    *  status changed from new to closed.
    * resolution set to wontfix.

libtunepimp is no longer used


and it looks to me work on this has stopped some where in the fall of 2008.

So you might say just use the last latest mpeg4ip (1.6.0). Well, that file as noted on their website is corrupt, and have no way to fix it. After much searching I did find a un-corrupt tarball, except the make failed terribly on faac or faad. Don't remember atm but it tanked badly. So the gist of this is some alternative needs to be found to take tunepimps place.

Thanks for listening, and great work.
Comment 1 Taurnil 2009-04-27 03:24:48 UTC 
I just received a response about the libtunepimp bug report. Their response says it all and kdemultimedia should in my opinion drop this as an optional dependency in favor of something else. Their response;

#5095: tunepimp-0.5.3, mp4v2 - missing mp4.h
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  Reporter:  taurnil.oronar@hotmail.com        |       Owner:       
      Type:  bug                               |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  normal                            |   Milestone:       
 Component:  libtunepimp                       |     Version:       
Resolution:                                    |    Keywords:       
   Browser:  Safari, Konqueror (KHTML/Webkit)  |          Os:  Linux
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Comment (by voiceinsideyou):
 
 libtunepimp has been long deprecated, so this is probably a wontfix. ref
 #3983, #2749 etc
Comment 2 Taurnil 2023-01-05 18:07:59 UTC 
This can be closed if you like. Things have long moved on.
Comment 3 Taurnil 2024-10-13 15:23:22 UTC 
This has been resolved.