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==== ste-plugins ====
New stereo LADSPA plugins made by Fons Adriaensen
 * ste-plugins

 New stereo LADSPA plugins made by Fons Adriaensen


1. Previous announcements

2. Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers have been quite active since the Wheezy release, and have some interesting plans for the Jessie release cycle. Here we give you an update on what work has been done and work that is still ongoing.

3. What's cooking for Jessie

3.1. Frameworks and libraries

  • LAME
    • After many years of work with both the upstream developers and the FTP master team, one of the most visible changes that landed in Debian Wheezy regarding multimedia was the availability of the LAME MP3 encoder in the main distribution, without having to resort to unofficial repositories. Besides a command line utility, LAME is, perhaps, most used as a library by other packages, and this effort has already began occuring: libav/ffmpeg, audacity, the GStreamer framework and other applications are already being compiled to take advantage of a free, high quality MP3 encoding engine.

    First uploaded to Wheezy, it has recently received some bugfixes.
  • FFmpeg -> Libav

    • As you might have noticed, there have been some disruptive changes inside the FFmpeg project. In Debian, we are following the Libav fork, which has inherited most of the infrastructure (such as the FATE regression testsuite), the logo, and most of the former active developers. In many ways, Libav is the closer continuation of what used to be FFmpeg and fits Debian's needs much better. So far, the real winner of these events have been the users as important developments, such as frame based multi-threading (575600), have finally been merged.

  • xvidcore
    • The xvidcore package, which provide MPEG-4 SP/ASP video codecs has been uploaded to Debian. It has already been integrated into Libav and mplayer, so you can now encode XViD streams.

  • x264
    • The x264 package, which provide H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compliant video codecs, have been added to the main distribution and already integrated into other applications.

3.2. New/upgraded applications

  • mplayer2
    • After years of parallel development, the mplayer2 fork of mplayer has matured a lot to the point of being a usable alternative. Currently, mplayer2 has been packaged and can already be found in wheezy. We are currently considering what to do with the old mplayer package as mplayer2 no longer provides mencoder, but offers a number of other promising features.

  • mpv
    • mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

      mpv brings many new features and changes over the older mplayer2 and MPlayer projects, and although there are still some similarities to its predecessors, mpv should be considered as a completely different program.

  • dvd-slideshow
    • dvd-slideshow consists of a suite of command line tools which come in handy to make slideshows from collections of pictures. Documentation is provided and available in `/usr/share/doc/dvd-slideshow/'.
  • dvdwizard
    • DVDwizard can fully automate the creation of DVD-Video filesystem. It supports graphical menus, chapters, multiple titlesets and multi-language streams. It supports both PAL and NTSC video modes too.
  • smtube
    • SMTube is a stand-alone graphical video browser and player, which makes ?YouTube's videos browsing, playing, and download such a piece of cake. It has so many features that, we are sure, will make ?YouTube lovers very, very happy.

  • Groove Basin
    • Groove Basin is a music player server with a web-based user interface inspired by Amarok 1.4. It runs on a server optionally connected to speakers. Guests can control the music player by connecting with a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Further, users can stream their music libraries remotely.

      It comes with a fast, responsive web interface that supports keyboard shortcuts and drag drop. It also provides the ability to upload songs, download songs, and import songs by URL, including ?YouTube URLs. Groove Basin supports Dynamic Mode which automatically queues random songs, favoring songs that have not been queued recently.

      It automatically performs ?ReplayGain scanning on every song using the EBU R128 loudness standard, and automatically switches between track and album mode. Groove Basin supports the MPD protocol, which means it is compatible with MPD clients. There is also a more powerful Groove Basin protocol which you can use if the MPD protocol does not meet your needs.

  • lives
    • The latest upstream release of one of the most popular non-linear video editors for GNU/Linux is available. It supports all the latest standards, and thanks to its modular design it could be easily extended with custom plugins.
  • XBMC
    • XBMC has been partially rebranded as "XBMC from Debian" to make it clear that it is changed to conform to Debian's Policy. The latest stable release, 13.2 Gotham will be part of Jessie making Debian a good choice for HTPC-s.

  • muse TODO
  • mixxx TODO
  • laborejo TODO
  • rosegarden TODO
  • forked-daapd
    • Forked-daapd switched to a new, active upstream again dropping Grand Central Dispatch in favor of libevent. The switch fixed several bugs and made forked-daapd available on all release architectures instead of shipping only on amd64 and i386. Now nothing prevents you from setting up a music streaming (DAAP/DACP) server on your favorite home server no matter if it is based on mips, arm or x86!

  • SoundScapeRenderer

    • SoundScapeRenderer (aka SSR) is a (rather) easy to use render engine for spatial audio, that provides a number of different rendering algorithms, ranging from binaural (headphone) playback via wave field synthesis to higher-order ambisonics.

  • Pure Data
    • Jessie will ship version 0.46 of the real-time graphical programming environment Pure Data.

      A number of new additional libraries (externals) will appear for the first time, including (among others) Eric Lyon's fftease and lyonpotpourrie, Thomas Musil's iemlib, the pdstring library for string manipulation and pd-lua that allows to write Pd-objects in the popular lua scripting language.

  • SuperCollider

    • The popular SuperCollider software synth will be available in Jessie. Go give it a try!

  • Csound
    • Csound for jessie will feature the new major series 6, with the improved IDE CsoundQT. This new csound supports improved array data type handling, multi-core rendering and debugging features.
  • Ardour3
    • The new generation of the popular digital audio workstation will make his very first appearance in Debian Jessie.
  • sonic-visualiser
    • Sonic Visualiser Application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

  • zita-bls1
    • Binaural stereo signals converter made by Fons Adriaensen
  • zita-mu1
    • Stereo monitoring organiser for jackd made by Fons Adriaensen
  • zita-njbridge
    • Jack clients to transmit multichannel audio over a local IP network made by Fons Adriaensen
  • libltc
    • New timecode library made by Robin Gareus
  • jack-midi-clock
    • New jackd midiclock utility made by Robin Gareus
  • HandBrake

    • HandBrake, a versatile video transcoder, is now available for jessie.

  • VLC
    • Jessie will release with the 2.2.x series of VLC.
  • libva
    • libva and the driver for Intel GPUs has been updated to the 1.4.0 release. Support for new GPUs has been added.

3.3. JACK and LADI

3.3.1. lash -> ladish

LASH Audio Session Handler was abandoned upstream in favor of the new session management system, called ladish: LADI Session Handler.
ladish will allow users to run many JACK applications at once and save/restore their configuration with few mouse clicks.

The current status of the integration between the new session handler and JACK may be summarized as follows:

  • ladish provides the backend;

  • laditools contains a number of useful graphical tools to tune the session management system's whole configuration (including JACK);

  • gladish provides a graphical interface for the session handler, written with the GTK+2.0 libraries.

Note that ladish uses the D-Bus interface to the jack daemon. This means that jackd1 does not support it. The current jackd2 version available in Debian Jessie fully supports ladish and also cooperates fine with it.

3.4. plugins

3.4.1. LADSPA updates

  • ste-plugins
    • New stereo LADSPA plugins made by Fons Adriaensen

TODO

3.4.2. LV2 revision 1.10.0

Debian Jessie will bring the newest 1.10.0 of the LV2 technology. Most changes affect the packaging of new plugins and extensions, a brief list of packaging guidelines is now available.

  • vee one suite
    • New LV2 instruments kit made by Rui Nuno Capela
      • drumkv1
      • samplv1
      • synthv1
  • zam-plugins
    • New LV2 plugins bundle by Damien Zammit
  • x42-plugins
    • New LV2 plugins bundle made by Robin Gareus

3.4.3. Standalone Audio Plugins

  • radium-compressor

3.4.4. Video Plugins: frei0r

Major upgrade of the standard collection for the minimalistic plugin API for video effects to frei0r-1.4

4. What's not going to be in

4.1. Dropped packages

4.1.0.1. specimen

Reason: Unmaintained upstream. Suggested replacement for users is petri-foo (fork of specimen)

4.1.0.2. lv2fil

Reason: Unmaintained upstream. Suggested replacement for users is eq10q or calf eq

4.1.0.3. zynjacku

Reason: Unmaintained upstream. Suggested replacement for users is jalv

4.1.0.4. jack-rack

Reason: Unmaintained upstream.

4.1.0.5. flumotion

Reason: Unmaintained upstream, unfixable Build-Dependencies

5. Activity statistics

More information about team's activity are available at http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/.

6. Where to reach us

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers can be reached at pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org for packaging related topics, or at debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org for user and more general discussion. We would like to invite everyone interested in multimedia to join us there. Some of the team members are also in the #debian-multimedia channel on OFTC.