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Re: "state of multimedia" (audio)



On Wednesday 22 February 2006 15:51, Junichi Uekawa was like:
> Hi,
>
> I've done a little presentation for Tokyo-area Debian meeting[1] last week.
> I've translated the resource into English[2].
>
> It's a summary of what I've been doing and where I want to go from
> now, and an introduction to what the Debian scene currently looks like.
>
> I would be interested in what you think about the presentation, and
> what might be missing from my perspective.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/2005-debianmeeting.html.en
>
> [2]
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/data/debianmeetingresume200602-pres
>entation-uekawa-english.pdf

Yes, there's a couple of pieces that stood out for attention:

"""
DAW: Debian Audio Workstation An uneducated attempt to use Debian to perform 
recording and 		mastering with many audio tracks. It was known to be a 
difficult path until beginning of 2006. With improvement of real-time 
response times, it became popular by year 2007... (hope)
"""

!?!uneducated!?!

Ardour has been useable in Debian for a while now. A/DeMuDi has provided a 
stable (i.e. useable) multimedia distribution since the release of the 1.2 
series. I would s/2006/2005 at least. Debian is already becoming the platform 
of choice for many musicians and sub-distributions like (off the top of my 
head) 64studio, Musix, the Lionstracs Mediastation uses Debian and studio to 
Go! is based on Knoppix. Most of these systems work ootb in most cases.

I realise that you're talking about mainstream Debian here and the remark is 
possibly a little tongue in cheek, but I also you are being a little 
conservative / pessimistic too.

"""
DeMuDi/agnula: A project that ran in Europe with some funding for the last few 
years. A Multimedia distribution based on Debian.
"""

AGNULA/DeMuDi please! It is a Custom Debian Distribution, a CDD focused on 
multimedia applications. A/DeMuDi is not separate from Debian, it is simply a 
customised way to distribute it. This distinction is _very_ important.

"""
Quality assurance. Want to start adding regression testsuites. Most of 
applications I don’t know how to use; starting with researching the usage 
scenarios.
"""

This paragraph needs explaining better, or at least, I need to educate myself 
better. Possibly this is opening up a whole new subject for 
discussion. ?regression testing? ?usage scenarios? Along with identifying who 
the multimedia maintainers are and trying to keep tabs on whether they are 
active or need help. Multimedia QA would be a Good Thing. Count me in.
-- 
cheers,

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim



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