Bug#1014535: ITP: advene -- Annotate Digital Videos, Exchange on the NEt
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Olivier Aubert <contact@olivieraubert.net>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, contact@olivieraubert.net
* Package name : advene
Version : 3.13
Upstream Author : Olivier Aubert <contact@olivieraubert.net>
* URL : https://www.advene.org/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Annotate Digital Videos, Exchange on the NEt
The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily
create comments and analyses of video documents, through the
definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation
into automatically-generated or user-written comment views (HTML
documents). Annotations can also be used to modify the rendition
of the audiovisual document, thus providing virtual montage,
captioning, navigation... capabilities. Users can exchange their
comments/analyses in the form of Advene packages, independently from
the video itself.
The Advene (Annotate Digital Videos, Exchange on the NEt) project is aimed
towards communities exchanging discourses (analysis, studies) about
audiovisual documents (e.g. movies) in DVD format. This requires that
audiovisual content and hypertext facilities be integrated, thanks to
annotations providing explicit structures on audiovisual streams, upon
which hypervideo documents can be engineered.
Advene[1] is a video annotation software (GPL), developed with python, Gtk
and Gstreamer. It was present in older Debian releases [2], but got
removed in 2016 due to major migrations (python2->python3,
Gtk2->Gtk3, Gstreamer0.10->Gstreamer1.0).
Since then, the application has been updated and is now in good
shape to be reintroduced into Debian. The updated Debian package[3],
migrated from cdbs to dh_python, has been used/tested for at least 3
years (distributed through a private repository[4]).
It was previously maintained under the Multimedia Team umbrella, but
I was hinted that the Python team may be more appropriate. I joined the
Python team, but found no DD yet there to sponsor the package.
Happy hacking! Best,
Olivier Aubert
[1] https://www.advene.org/
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/advene
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/advene
[4] https://advene.org/download.html#linux
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