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Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team

Since there has been a lot happening in the Debian Multimedia world during the Squeeze release, so we figured we should give you an update on that.

Who are we?

In the dark old ages, there were two teams involved in multimedia: the Debian Multimedia and Debian Multimedia Packages teams. Note that neither of them is related to debian-multimedia.org. Both teams were merged into one, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, to avoid effort fragmentation. Since then, there has been a lot of work done:

Consumer Multimedia in Debian

Consumer Multimedia is about playing and, well, consuming multimedia. Squeeze will feature:

  • ffmpeg 0.5.2, including h263 and mp4 encoders enabled. No mp3 encoder, though.
  • VLC 1.1.3

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Producer Multimedia in Debian

Producer multimedia is software for producing multimedia. Squeeze will feature:

  • Ardour 2.8
  • JACK versions 0.118 and 1.9.6 (aka, jackd1 and jackd2). You can choose to install any of them (but only one at a time).
  • LV2 plugins are supported. Ardour has support for them, and there are a bunch of them provided in debian.
  • LADSPA plugins are still supported.
  • ?FireWire sound devices are supported with libffado, and is supported by JACK.

Squeeze will not feature:

  • JACK session support.
  • Ardour 3 (it's not out yet, so it did not make it in time for squeeze).

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Debian Multimedia Blend

There is also an effort to start a Debian Multimedia Blend to give a better overview about what multimedia applications are available in Debian. There is a short list[1] for a quick overview as well as a long package list separated in sections to give a more detailed overview (including translations, screenshots, popularity of package etc)[2]. You are invited to help improving the tasks either directly in SVN[3] or by sending patches to Andreas Tille[4] or debian-muldimedia@lists.debian.org (see below).

For those who want to squash some bugs in multimedia packages there is also the bugs page generated by the Blends tools[5].

Where to reach us

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers can be reached at pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, should you have any questions. We have also decided to repurpose the old debian-muldimedia@lists.debian.org address for user and more general discussion. We would like to invite everyone interested in multimedia to join us there.

[1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/packagelist

[2] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks

[3] svn://svn.debian.org/svn/blends/projects/multimedia/trunk/debian-multimedia/tasks

[4] mailto:tille@debian.org

[5] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/bugs