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Bug#527746: RFP: dirac -- advanced royalty-free video compression format



On Saturday 09 May 2009 04:21:46 Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 08.05.2009, 15:39 -0400 schrieb Andres Mejia:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name    : dirac
> >   Version         : 1.0.2
> >   Upstream Author : Thomas Davies <diracinfo@rd.bbc.co.uk>
> > * URL             : http://diracvideo.org/
> > * License         : MPL 1.1, LGPL, GPL, MIT
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description     : advanced royalty-free video compression format
> >
> > Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a
> > wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to
> > broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing.
>
> We already have a package for schroedinger, another free Dirac
> implementation that is faster but has currently a bit lower quality when
> encoding.
>
> It'd still be great to have a package of Dirac too, IIRC Ubuntu already
> has one and I'd be interested in sponsoring/co-maintainership if someone
> wants to maintain it in Debian.

Alright, I have a package ready for upload in the multimedia git repo. I'm using 
the same orig tarball from Ubuntu.

Slomo, if you want to help, feel free to join the pkg-multimedia-maintainers 
team. The packaging for dirac is at:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/dirac.git
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/dirac.git;a=summary

-- 
Regards,
Andres

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