[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of gvideo

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Andy Tai <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: gvideo
System name: gvideo
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

This project will be called \"gvideo\"
It aims to be a \"content-based retrieval\" system for video data.

The GNU Project has a similar project for image, called GIFT.  See that project 
for example of a content-based retrieval system.

Note this is not a traditional video database system like a CD catalog 
database.  Gvideo will use image and video processing technologies for 
processing queries.  Gvideo is not a keyword base system where one associate 
keywords with video and allow other people to search using the keywords.

GVideo is not about video encoding or decoding.  It does not intent to develop 
new codecs.  It will uses whatever existing codecs are available.  This will be 
done via the use of the gstreamer multimedia framework.  Similarly, gvideo does 
not mean to be a video editor.

I want gvideo to be partly a research project for video processing.  But that 
dimension can be ignored for GNU\'s purpose, which is about free software. And 
gvideo wants to be the leading free software in video retrieval.

It is in the beginning stages and I am in the process of gathering and 
evaluating \"building blocks\" like gstreamer for gvideo.  I will also borrow 
whatever technology is useful from GIFT for gvideo.