Bug#368636: ITP: schroedinger -- portable implementation of the dirac video codec

[Sebastian Dröge <slomo@slomosnail.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name      : schroedinger
  Version           : 0.1.0.1
  Upstream Author   : schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
* URL               : http://schrodinger.sourceforge.net
* License           : GPL/LGPL/MPL/MIT
  Description       : portable implementation of the dirac video codec

Hi,
I plan to package schroedinger, a portable implementation of the dirac
video codec, including a gstreamer plugin for encoding and decoding.

Bye

> The Schrödinger project will implement portable libraries for the high
> quality Dirac video codec created by BBC Research and Development.
> Dirac is a free and open source codec producing very high image
> quality video.
> 
> The Schrödinger project is a project done by BBC R&D and Fluendo in
> order to create a set of high quality decoder and encoder libraries
> for the Dirac video codec. This project will produce two libraries in
> ANSI C89, one for decoding and one for encoding. 
> 
> Also as part of this project we will develop a mapping for embedding
> Dirac inside the Ogg container format developed by Xiph.org. There
> will also be developed plugins for the popular GStreamer multimedia
> framework.