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

3.2. New/upgraded applications

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.

3.3. JACK, LADI, LV2, and audio plugins

3.3.1. LADSPA updates

3.3.1.1. ste-plugins

New stereo LADSPA plugins made by Fons Adriaensen

TODO

3.3.2. 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.

3.3.3. 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:

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.

3.3.4. Plugins

3.3.4.1. radium-compressor

3.3.4.2. vee one suite

New LV2 instruments kit made by Rui Nuno Capela

3.3.4.3. zam-plugins

New LV2 plugins bundle by Damien Zammit

3.3.4.4. x42-plugins

New LV2 plugins bundle made by Robin Gareus

TODO

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.

5. Activity statistics

More information about team's activity are available at http://blends.alioth.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.