Purpose of ''debimedia''
The purpose of the debimedia project is to provide a repository that contains
- packages that are under a DFSG-free license, but cannot be integrated into the official Debian archive because of patent issues
- "-extra" packages that provide extended features (in most cases by linking against packages that fall under category 1) for packages that are already in Debian. These packages will be built from the same source as their counterparts in Debian
The packages will be prepared by the pkg-multimedia maintainers team in corresponding GIT repositories. Contributors who want to work on the packages should become member of the pkg-multimedia maintainers team and introduce themselves on the team's mailing list.
Prepared packages
Packages will be provided for both the latest stable Debian release (i.e. Lenny) and unstable. the working branch is unstable with the packages "backported" to stable at opportunity.
Packages that are already prepared or being worked on (or just considered) include:
faac (ready)
lame (ready)
x264 (ready)
xvidcore (ready)
mjpegtools (license issues?)
ffmpeg (unstripped sources, waiting for ftp-master approval)
- unstripped internal encoders
- extra codecs: faac, lame, x264, xvidcore
gstreamer0.10-plugins-{bad,ugly} (balancing -extra approach against -$(codec) approach)
- extra codecs (bad): faac, x264 in Lenny, (mpeg2enc), xvidcore
- extra codecs (ugly): lame, x264 in sid
libquicktime (-extra package)
- extra codecs: faac, lame, x264
mplayer (-extra package containing mencoder)
vlc (-extra package)
- extra codec: x264
Excluded packages
The debimedia archive will not include packages that
are free as in Beer but do not meet the license requirements of the DFSG
- Adobe Reader
- Opera
- Skype
- and the like...
- contain pirated binary-only files without any license or copyright notice
- w32codecs
- do not meet the general quality demands of the Debian archive
- incomplete debian/copyright information
- unreasonable hacks in debian/rules
- and the like...
- are taken over from other repositories withour prior revision
- should rather be included directly in Debian
The inclusion of the libdvdcss package is currently considered.