ITP: scenic -- Telepresence software for live performances and installations

[Alexandre Quessy <alexandre@quessy.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexandre Quessy <alexandre@quessy.net>


* Package name    : scenic
  Version         : 0.6.0
  Upstream Author : Tristan Matthews <tristan@sat.qc.ca>
                    Alexandre Quessy <alexandre@quessy.net>
                    Simon Piette <simonp@sat.qc.ca>
                    Philippe Chevry <pchevry@sat.qc.ca>
                    Koya Charles <koya.charles@gmail.com>
                    Antoine Collet <antoine.collet@gmail.com>
                    Sylvain Cormier <studiozodiak@yahoo.ca>
                    Etienne Desautels <etienne@teknozen.net>
                    Hugo Boyer <ugomatik@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://svn.sat.qc.ca/trac/scenic
* License         : GPL v2
  Programming Lang: C, C++, Python, bash
  Description     : Telepresence software for live performances and
installations

 Scenic is a free software suite for streaming audio, video and MIDI between
 live events. It was created at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) to
 give artists a powerful tool for telepresence in live arts contexts and
 new media installations.

 The streaming is done over RTP with the GStreamer multimedia framework.
 Users can also choose low-bandwidth or high-quality codecs, depending on
 what is available on their system. It offers up to as many audio channels
 as your audio device supports. Scenic consists in a desktop application
 and several command-line utilities:
  * scenic: Desktop application to stream audio, video and MIDI over RTP
  * milhouse: Streams audio and video over RTP
  * midistream: Streams MIDI notes and controls over RTP
  * dc-ctl: Controls connected DC IEEE 1394 cameras
  * firereset: Resets a IEEE 1394 bus to help in case of problems
  * jack-info: Prints informations about running JACK servers

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scenic
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scenic/scenic_0.5.10-2.dsc

The usual location of the tarballs is: http://scenic.sat.qc.ca/download/

The 0.5.10 version is the first release candidate for first release of
the 0.6 stable branch. When the Debian package will be considered ready
by the mentor, we will be able to call its version 0.6.0.