---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Alessio Treglia" <[email protected]> Date: Oct 22, 2014 1:42 PM Subject: Bits from the Debian Multimedia Maintainers To: <[email protected]> Cc:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > > Ciao! > > The Debian Multimedia Maintainers have been quite active since the > Wheezy release, and have some interesting news to share for the Jessie > release. Here we give you a brief update on what work has been done and > work that is still ongoing. > > Let's see what's cooking for Jessie then. > > > Frameworks and libraries > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > * Support for many new media formats and codecs. > > The codec library libavcodec, which is used by popular media playback > applications including vlc, mpv, totem (using gstreamer1.0-libav), xine, > and many more, has been updated to the latest upstream release version > 11 provided by Libav [libav]. This provides Debian users with HEVC > playback, a native Opus decoder, Matroska 3D support, Apple ProRes, and > much more. Please see [libav-changelog] for a full list of functionality > additions and updates. > > * libebur128 > > libebur128 is a free implementation of the European Broadcasting Union > Loudness Recommendation (EBU R128), which is essentially an alternative > to ReplayGain. The library can be used to analyze audio perceived > loudness and subsequentially normalize the volume during playback. > > * libltc > > libltc provides functionalities to encode and decode Linear (or > Longitudinal) Timecode (LTC) from/to SMPTE data timecode. > > * libva > > libva and the driver for Intel GPUs has been updated to the 1.4.0 > release. Support for new GPUs has been added. libva now also supports > Wayland. > > * Pure Data > > A number of new additional libraries (externals) will appear in Jessie, > 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. > > > JACK and LADI > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > LASH Audio Session Handler was abandoned upstream a long time ago in > favor of the new session management system, called ladish (LADI Session > Handler). ladish allows 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 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 easy-to-use graphical interface for the session > handler. > > Note that ladish uses the D-Bus interface to the jack daemon, therefore > only Jessie's jackd2 provides support for and also cooperates fine > with it. > > > Plugins: LV2 and LADSPA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Debian Jessie will bring the newest 1.10.0 version of the LV2 technology > [lv2]. Most changes affect the packaging of new plugins and extensions, > a brief list of packaging guidelines is now available [lv2-packaging]. > > A number of new plugins and development tools too have been made > available during the Jessie development cycle: > > * LV2 Toolkit > > LVTK provides libraries that wrap the LV2 C API and extensions into easy > to use C++ classes. The original work for this > was mostly done by Lars Luthman in lv2-c++-tools. > > * Vee One Suite > > The whole suite by Rui Nuno Capela is now available in Jessie, and > consists of three components: > drumkv1: old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer > samplv1: polyphonic sampler > synthv1: analog-style 4-oscillator substractive synthesizer > All three are provided in both forms of LV2 plugins and stand-alone JACK > client. JACK session, JACK MIDI, and ALSA MIDI are supported too. > > * x42-plugins and zam-plugins > > LV2 bundles containing many audio plugins for high quality processing. > > * Fomp > > Fomp is an LV2 port of the MCP, VCO, FIL, and WAH plugins by Fons > Adriaensen. > > Some other components have been upgraded to more recent upstream versions: > > * ab2gate: 1.1.7 > * calf: 0.0.19+git20140915+5de5da28 > * eq10q: 2.0~beta5.1 > * NASPRO: 0.5.1 > > We've packaged ste-plugins, Fons Adriaensen's new stereo LADSPA plugins > bundle. > A major upgrade of frei0r [frei0r], namely the standard collection for > the minimalistic plugin API for video effects, will be available in > Jessie. > > > New multimedia applications > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > * Advene > > Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the NEt) is a flexible video > annotation application. > > * Ardour3 > > The new generation of the popular digital audio workstation will make > its very first appearance in Debian Jessie. > > * Cantata > > Qt4 front-end for the MPD daemon. > > * 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. > > * din > > DIN Is Noise is a musical instrument and audio synthesizer that supports > JACK audio output, MIDI, OSC, and IRC bot as input sources. It could be > extended and customized with Tcl scripts too. > > * 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. > > * flowblade > > Flowblade is a video editor - like the popular KDenlive based on the MLT > engine, but more lightweight and with some difference in editing concepts. > > * forked-daapd > > Forked-daapd switched [forked-daapd] 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! > > * harvid > > HTTP Ardour Video Daemon decodes still images from movie files and > serves them via HTTP. It provides frame-accurate decoding and is main > use-case is to act as backend and second level cache for rendering the > videotimeline in Ardour. > > * 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. > > * HandBrake > > HandBrake, a versatile video transcoder, is now available for Jessie. It > could convert video from nearly any format to a wide range of commonly > supported codecs. > > * jack-midi-clock > > New jackd midiclock utility made by Robin Gareus. > > * laborejo > > Laborejo, Esperanto for "Workshop", is used to craft music through > notation. It is a LilyPond GUI frontend, a MIDI creator and a tool > collection to inspire and help music composers. > > * mpv > > 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. The project focuses mainly on modern systems and encourages > developer activity. As such, large portions of outdated code originating > from MPlayer have been removed, and many new features and improvements > have been added [mpv-changelog]. Note that, although there are still > some similarities to its predecessors, mpv should be considered a > completely different program (e.g. lacking compatibility with both > mplayer and mplayer2 in terms of command-line arguments and > configuration). > > * 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. > > * sonic-visualiser > > Sonic Visualiser Application for viewing and analysing the contents of > music audio files. > > * 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. > > * Videotrans > > videotrans is a set of scripts that allow its user to reformat existing > movies into the VOB format that is used on DVDs. > > * XBMC > > XBMC has been partially rebranded as "XBMC from Debian" [xbmc-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. > > * 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 > > * radium-compressor > > Radium Compressor is the system compressor of the Radium suite. It is > provided in the form of stand-alone JACK application. > > > Multimedia Tasks > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > With Jessie we are shipping a set of multimedia related tasks [tasks]. > They include package lists for doing several multimedia related tasks. > If you are interested in defining new tasks, or tweaking the current, > existing ones, we are very much interested in hearing from you. > > > Upgraded applications and libraries > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > * Aeolus: 0.9.0 > * Aliki: 0.3.0 > * Ams: 2.1.1 > * amsynth: 1.4.2 > * Audacious: 3.5.2 > * Audacity: 2.0.5 > * Audio File Library: 0.3.6 > * Blender: 2.72b > * Bristol: 0.60.11f > * C* Audio Plugin Suite: 0.9.23 > * Cecilia: 5.0.9 > * cmus: 2.5.0 > * DeVeDe: 3.23.0-13-gbfd73f3 > * DRC: 3.2.1 > * EasyTag: 2.2.2 > * ebumeter: 0.2.0 > * faustworks: 0.5 > * ffDiaporama: 1.5 > * ffms: 2.20 > * gmusicbrowser: 1.1.13 > * Hydrogen: 0.9.6.1 > * IDJC: 0.8.14 > * jack-tools: 20131226 > * LiVES: 2.2.6 > * mhWaveEdit: 1.4.23 > * Mixxx: 1.11.0 > * mp3fs: 0.91 > * MusE: 2.1.2 > * Petri-Foo: 0.1.87 > * PHASEX: 0.14.97 > * QjackCtl: 0.3.12 > * Qtractor: 0.6.3 > * rtaudio: 4.1.1 > * Rosegarden: 14.02 > * rtmidi: 2.1.0 > * SoundTouch: 1.8.0 > * stk: 4.4.4 > * streamtuner2: 2.1.3 > * SuperCollider: 3.6.6 > * Synfig Studio: 0.64.1 > * TerminatorX: 3.90 > * tsdecrypt: 10.0 > * Vamp Plugins SDK: 2.5 > * VLC: Jessie will release with the 2.2.x series of VLC > * XCFA: 4.3.8 > * xwax: 1.5 > * xjadeo: 0.8.0 > * x264: 0.142.2431+gita5831aa > * zynaddsubfx: 2.4.3 > > > What's not going to be in Jessie > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > with the aim to improve the overall quality of the multimedia software > available in Debian, we have dropped a number of packages which were > abandoned upstream: > > * beast > * flumotion > * jack-rack > * jokosher > * lv2fil (suggested replacement for users is eq10q or calf eq) > * phat > * plotmm > * specimen (suggested replacement for users is petri-foo - fork of > specimen) > * zynjacku (suggested replacement for users is jalv) > > We've also dropped mplayer, presently nobody seems interested in > maintaining it. > The suggested replacements for users are mplayer2 or mpv. Whilst the > former is mostly compatible with mplayer in terms of command-line > arguments and configuration (and adds a few new features too), the > latter adds a lot of new features and improvements, and it is actively > maintained upstream. > > Please note that although the mencoder package is no longer available > anymore, avconv and mpv do provide encoding functionality. For more > information see [avconv-man], [avconv-documentation] and [mpv-encoding]. > > > Broken functionalities > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > rtkit under systemd is broken at the moment. [bug747568] > > > Activity statistics > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > More information about team's activity are available at [team-stats]. > > > Where to reach us > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The Debian Multimedia Maintainers can be reached at > pkg-multimedia-maintainers AT lists.alioth.debian.org for packaging > related topics, or at debian-multimedia AT 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. > > > Cheers! > > > Alessio Treglia > on behalf of the Debian Multimedia Maintainers > > > > [bug747568] https://bugs.debian.org/747568 > [forked-daapd] http://bit.ly/1rqwAW1 > [frei0r] http://frei0r.dyne.org/ > [libav] http://libav.org > [libav-changelog] http://bit.ly/1DB3MTo > [lv2] http://lv2plug.in/ > [lv2-packaging] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Policy/LV2 > [mpv] http://mpv.io/ > [mpv-changelog] http://bit.ly/1tLqV4i > [mpv-encoding] http://bit.ly/1tcgE0f > [avconv-man] http://bit.ly/1s8QKE5 > [avconv-documentation] https://libav.org/avconv.html > [tasks] http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/index > [team-stats] http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/ > [xbmc-debian] http://balintreczey.hu/blog/introducing-xbmc-from-debian/ > > > - -- > Alessio Treglia | www.alessiotreglia.com > Debian Developer | [email protected] > Ubuntu Core Developer | [email protected] > 0416 0004 A827 6E40 BB98 90FB E8A4 8AE5 311D 765A > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUR+wTAAoJEOikiuUxHXZadN8P/RqWC6LKNXUrUNGk3J1zRQx9 > Op1HzPv7dvhWjpRiYkSHKw1P9Q7Dm6cSVCp3sjtH9FYmBMz8CTA0/agsSMMPvgXU > NuRAlvILCjCuHAJ0PqySBb8buIpVWkz/vHCmV10CiWK7eK5NhcJdbUH5tQkG8bQy > IfYYWlivt7DTMePz3JkWozFNTMwELCS3qhmQE7Mh+FhU3I8PXA5+k/SU7bRH6Nfv > I6hlYsri+SmB9bhA1O9Lvrzqy/A6nZx8C4iq/yfj/4jw2uwIZ5pskzgd29yNaAPX > 0H48IfaHhaHqu5q7fAtZ7N2iuEK35rK2OOkcSOmBJNvEeAPB/kHzXnMfQHzIlekY > os0gENSpG2woKuxeQVw1/nWx/ItutfE0OMvRyKMllW7TubAelN2MvIgYMEjU2nJ/ > QssXjC4HGOazeH7Q7biluAo10UVQ0jE5yoaOoMvn/qQ/TWc/BX8LvK+x+erkac90 > R1PHcfQmYZMhQMgLTwT5VK0/hcWGlSJCqcuPO16Y4JmEh3Q95ZQ9XXmniLkVW491 > XAo0ql02z6K2hciK8F7K9CbSpNGGJUqB9yRbyFAPTA2J9Z/Kn4u6KP/vR1SXxtOE > XhrFUA5TRcsRJdIypzizYwey4cq9hXV6/92XomUgHUwXMvm99Fi+3veV9vWIel1j > cIj8TILYs7cst2c9D/ts > =N7zp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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