Debian Multimedia Project

Summary
A Debian Pure Blend is a Debian internal project which assembles a set of packages that might help users to solve certain tasks of their work. The list on the right shows the tasks of Debian Multimedia.

Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Multimedia is made of:

Audio production - Software for the production of music and audio

    Here are some packages that might be useful for audio production.
Karaoke - Packages which support karaoke game

    Debian contains a some programs to support people who like to play Karaoke. Here you can have an overview.
Multimedia misc tools - Collection of multipurpose multimedia tools

    Here we collect packages which might be used for miscellaneous issues in different fields of multimedia
Development - Software for development of multimedia applications

    Here are some packages that might be useful for development of multimedia applications.
Music player - Packages which support musicians

    Debian contains a some programs to support the work of musicians. Here you can have an overview.
Note editors - Note editors in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs to edit notes. Here you can have an overview.
Sound control - Packages which allow to control sound hardware and servers

    These packages are helpful to control your sound hardware.
Sound editor - Sound editors in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs to edit sound. Here you can have an overview.
Sound encoding - Packages to fetch sound tracks from different sources

    Debian contains a several programs to obtain digital music either from ripping CDs, digitizers or others. This is a collection of such packages.
Sound info - ID tag editors, command line and GUI

    These package might be useful to maintain collection of sound files, edit tags, rename filles according to their tags etc. They might feature a graphical user interface or work as scripts in batch mode.
Sound player - Sound players in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs to play sound. Here you can have an overview.
Sound synthesis - Packages to create synthesized sounds

    Packages that make it possible to synthesize new sounds using the computer, either in real-time or not.
Sound tools - Different tools for handling sound in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs useful for working with sound that do not fit in any other category. Here you can have an overview.
Video creation - Packages to create videos

    Debian contains a several programs to create videos for instance by recording actions on your screen. Here you can have an overview.
Video editor - Video editors in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs to edit videos. Here you can have an overview.
Video player - Video players in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs to play video. Here you can have an overview.
Video tools - Different tools for handling video in Debian

    Debian contains a several programs useful for working with video that do not fit in any other category. Here you can have an overview.

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Go there...
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/

DebianMultimedia

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Task description

The Debian Multimedia project aims to make Debian a good platform for audio and multimedia work. This basically means packaging/maintaining multimedia applications and libraries, and collaborating with other maintainers or teams in order to improve audio/video support in Debian.

The Debian Multimedia team is currently merging with the Debian Multimedia Packages team. Both teams are converging into one, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team. This means that there is some duplicate infrastructure that should converge on a best-effort basis.

Get involved

First read the FAQ and consider if you want to join the team.
Help clean up bugs in bugs.debian.org. page 1 and page 2
Help with packaging.

Infrastructure

Mailinglists:
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ for general debian multimedia discussion
  
  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers for packaging discussion
  
  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-commits for monitoring commits to the packages in git
Packages QA:
- http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
  
  http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org (deprecated)
Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-multimedia
Launchpad Project: https://launchpad.net/people/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Git Repositories: List at http://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/, web interface at http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/<package>.git
- Old SVN repositories:
  - http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/demudi
    
    http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-multimedia

Realtime kernel

The Debian Multimedia team is not working on including a kernel image with the realtime-patches applied in Debian. Much of the realtime-patches have been accepted in the mainline kernel, to the point that for most purposes the stock Debian kernel is suitable even for realtime-like work.

If you'd like to use a kernel with the realtime-patches applied anyway, you might want to consider adding the pengutronix repository from http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-rt/debian_en.html .

Backports

Lenny backports for many of the Debian multimedia packages are available in this APT repository:

deb http://apt.64studio.com/backports lenny-backports main

Currently both amd64 and i386 are supported.

These should move to backports.debian.org at some point.

Interaction

Mailing list - development list
irc: #debian-multimedia on irc.debian.org (i.e. oftc)
- NB: if you drop in and don't get an immediate answer, hang around for awhile and you'll have a better chance of someone getting back to you.
/DevelopPackaging - coordinate the packaging effort
/Sponsoring - getting your multimedia related packages sponsored quickly
/Formats - Open multimedia file formats in Debian
/Discussion - make Debian a rocking audio/video workstation
/Policy - system guidelines and specifications
/Links - other interesting projects and pages

Usual roles

Currently there are no strict roles defined. All members can work on all packages, although there is some sort of split. A list of people actively involved in the packaging effort can be found here and here

Go there...
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia

The first package to install is debian-multimedia-keyring.
First download the debian-multimedia-keyring package.
Then under root or with sudo do the following :
"dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2010.12.26_all.deb" or "sudo dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2010.12.26_all.deb"
And voila.

For etch (oldstable) alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc packages
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org etch main
or
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org oldstable main or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org oldstable main

-->

For squeeze (stable) alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mipsel, powerpc and sparc packages
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
or
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main non-free or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org stable main non-free

For wheezy (testing) amd64, armel, i386, ia64, mipsel, powerpc and sparc packages
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
or
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free

For sid (unstable) alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mipsel, powerpc and sparc packages.
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free

For experimental amd64, i386 and powerpc packages.
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org experimental main or
deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org experimental main
The official Debian experimental repository isn't needed
but the sid repository is mandatory.

For source
add in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main or
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org sid main

If you find some broken dependencies or bugs in these packages, tell me and don't report bugs to the BTS.
Upstream bug report should be sent to the respective author.
(See the copyright file in /usr/share/doc/<package> for upstream e-mail address)

Go there...
http://debian-multimedia.org/

About Debian

WHAT is Debian?

The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.

An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer and does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs.

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.

However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as Mach) to implement different features. The Hurd is free software produced by the GNU project.

A large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from the GNU project; hence the names: GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd. These tools are also free.

Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs to help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software. Debian comes with over 29000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) — all of it free.

It's a bit like a tower. At the base is the kernel. On top of that are all the basic tools. Next is all the software that you run on the computer. At the top of the tower is Debian — carefully organizing and fitting everything so it all works together.

It's all free?

Go there...
http://www.debian.org/intro/about

Getting Debian

Debian GNU/Linux is distributed freely over Internet. You can download all of it from any of our mirrors. The Installation Manual contains detailed installation instructions.

If you simply want to install Debian, these are your options:

Go there...
http://www.debian.org/distrib/

2.4 Debian Pure Blends

Debian contains nearly 22.000 binary packages, and this number is constantly increasing. There is no single user who needs all these packages (even if conflicting packages are not considered).

The normal user is interested in a subset of these packages. But how does the user find out which packages are really interesting?

One solution is provided by the tasksel package. It provides a reasonable selection of quite general tasks that can be accomplished using a set of packages installed on a Debian GNU/Linux system. But this is not really fine grained, and does not address all of the needs of user groups with special interests.

Debian Pure Blends - in short Blends if used clearly in the Debian internal context which makes "Pure" and "Debian" obvious - which were formerly known as Custom Debian Distributions (this name was confusing because it left to much room for speculation that this might be something else than Debian) try to provide a solution for special groups of target users with different skills and interests. Not only do they provide handy collections of specific program packages, but they also ease installation and configuration for the intended purpose.

Debian Pure Blends are not forks from Debian. As the new name says clearly they are pure Debian and just provide a specific flavour. So if you obtain the complete Debian GNU/Linux distribution, you have all available Debian Pure Blends included.