Herman Robak wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:05:01 +0100, tim hall <tech@glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:On Saturday 14 January 2006 13:17, Eduardo Marcel Maçan was like:It's a good oportunity to give the "multimedia task force" the motivation and purpose it needsHmm, now you come to mention it, there is no 'lash' package anywhere in Debian stable, testing or DeMuDi as far as I can see. They are all still referred toby the 'old' name of ladcca. Ladcca2 and ladccad are available from the DeMuDi repositories. When you talk of the 'multimedia task force' who do you refer to? DeMuDi already has plenty of motivation and purpose and the integration is verygood, most packages work out of the box. What I find confusing is that forsome people there seems to be a separation between Debian multimedia andDeMuDi in their minds, which might account for people not finding what theyare looking for. ;)Is not DeMuDi a custom Debian distribution?
Yes Is DeMuDi only a suite of Debian packages?Yes but importantly it includes an optimised kernel for low latency, uses jackd as a sound server and the bulk of the audio applications are jack-aware meaning they can all used together, routing via Jack audio connection Kit (qjackctl). Compared to a standard Debian install there is, I've found, a marked performance benefit using Demudi.
If I recall correctly, cannot find the reference at the moment, one of the aims of Demudi is to feed the ideas and knowledge gained from producing Demudi back into the main Debian project.
http://demudi.agnula.org/ for more info robin
It is important that the necessary configuration rules are applied to (non-custom) Debian, so that the prerequisite features work out of the box. It is also important that applications have sensible fall-backs, so that they will not refuse to start simply because _one_ of their features can not be initialised. I came to think of Rosegarden refusing to start because there is no sequencer device. Rosegarden is both a score editor and a sequencer, and the score editing does not require a sequencer device. (although it is nice to have, for it provides aural feedback)See Debian policy on multimedia thread.Indeed. This is another data point for the (hopefully) upcoming Debian policy. --Herman Robak