mmvideo under construction

Hello, just wanted to let you know that the setup of the mmvideo package is coming along nicely! We’ve now got an (empty) Mercurial repo and the beginnings of some wiki pages. There still work to do in order to get the corresponding infrastructure setup here inside of Nokia but that’s moving along too. I’ll keep you posted on the progress!

Once all the necessary build, test and delivery mechanisms are in place the work to migrate video components out of mm and into mmvideo will begin. All going well, there will eventually be a changeset in mm where the video components disappear and, at the same time, another in mmvideo where they re-appear.

The directory layout within mmvideo will be different from mm (it will be a lot tidier! ), but any exported files and binaries that get built will be identical. Therefore, users in other packages (or apps) will notice no change. We’re only moving source files from one folder to another!

This work is happening on the MCL (i.e. for Symbian^4 and beyond). Existing RCLs (everything up to and including Symbian^3) will remain unchanged, i.e. everything is inside mm and mmvideo does not exist.

I will document the old and new directory locations for each video component in due course. That way it should be easy to find what you’re looking for in any Symbian release.

If you have any questions feel free to post them as comments below!

(Photo credit: “The view from my window…” by Attila Malarik)

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