* Package name    : hypnotix
   Version         : 2.9
   Upstream Author : Linux Mint
* URL or Web page : https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix
* License         : GPL-3+
   Description     : IPTV player

Hypnotix is an application to watch TV by streaming from M3U sources.
It is primarily developed for the Cinnamon desktop in Linux Mint but could
be used in any other desktop environment as well.

Il 30/10/2022 20:20, Thomas Uhle ha scritto:
I don't use an IPTV, I tried shortly kodi but I am not used enough about
this type of program.

It should be seen which others are packaged in debian besides kodi (I
know only it) and if hypnotix has anything better than these to
determine if it is worth adding hypnotix in debian.

can you tell something about?

I don't see strong links with cinnamon from a quick look (the dependency
with xapp is minor) so it could be maintained by another team or
maintainer as well (if anyone will want maintain it)

You are right, Kodi is a good program for watching IPTV. But it is also
so much more: DVB, DLNA client as well as a client for video-on-demand or
podcast services to name just a few more features. It is a full-grown
media center solution and as such installs on disk with 100MB at least
(not counting the various dependencies). Hypnotix has only one feature
compared to Kodi that is being a simple-to-use and lean application for
watching IPTV. It uses libmpv.so to seamlessly embed mpv as a player and
so only needs about 1MB of extra space on disk. That means it is quite
small compared to Kodi.
Hypnotix can consume the same M3U lists like Kodi, so you could use one of
the links provided by kodinerds.net for instance to get an up-to-date list
of TV stations. IMHO the usual suspects of media players like VLC and
alike are not suited for these types of M3U lists because these lists
contain the URLs for many TV stations in one file whereas those media
players expect that each M3U file corresponds to exactly one TV station
(and different URLs just refer to streams with different resolutions, bit
rates, subtitles, etc., but all for the same TV station). Moreover, those
media players would not automatically update the M3U lists (which is what
Hypnotix does). You would need to manually synchronize the URLs of the TV
stations.
In addition I think, sometimes it is just good to have an alternative,
especially if there is a simple, small and ready-to-go solution for
something that just works. Anyway, nobody would be asking why there are
several reincarnations of GNOME's file manager Nautilus in Debian (like
Caja, Nemo or Peony).

That is right. Hypnotix is as much connected to Cinnamon as any other
appliction from the XApps family (cf. xed or xviewer for instance with the
corresponding RFP requests #830598 and #830616 respectively). Just because
it is linked to (lib)xapp, does not mean it is needed for Cinnamon.

Il 02/11/2022 20:22, Thomas Uhle ha scritto:

Thanks for the informations and from what you say it seems worth adding,
but I have too few time and probably is better not maintain additional
packages for me, mostly in that case that I'll not use it and where I'll
need to do specific tests only for packaging/maintain it.

I specified the fact that it could be maintained by others to not block
if anyone was interested but seeing the cinnamon team in the middle gave up.

About many filemanager forked by nautilus is because each is connected
to a DE (also fork) and optimized for that DE.

I would prefer that there were fewer forks possible to have better
supported software and not waste resources but unfortunately this is
often difficult. One good example where forks was merged to join forces
in one better project is memtest86+ (with pcmemtest)