On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote: > Hi team, > > Am 04.07.2012 05:24, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > >> - I got quite some feedback about the debate with debian-multimedia.org >> I mentioned last month. My take away message from that feedback is >> that many users have no idea about the multimedia capabilities (and in >> particular of codecs availability) of recent Debian releases. We >> should probably invest some communication energies into that. > > > I think that's addressed at us. How about the following paragraph in the > release notes: > > " > Debian wheezy comes with full-featured libav (formerly ffmpeg) libraries and > frontends, including e.g. mplayer, mencoder, vlc and transcode. Additional > codec support is provided e.g. through lame for MP3 audio encoding, xvidcore > for MPEG-4 ASP video encoding, x264 for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding, > vo-aacenc for AAC audio encoding and opencore-amr and vo-amrwbenc for > Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrowband and Wideband encoding and decoding, > respectively. For most use cases, installation of packages from third-party > repositories should not be necessary anymore. The times of crippled > multimedia support in Debian are finally over! > "
To me, this reads great, but we really should check with leader@ (CC'ed) if such a public statement would bring Debian in a problematic legal situation. This reminds me of the discussion we had with the css installer package. Stefano, according to your experience with the legal contacts and ftp-master, do you think such a statement would be problematic? -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers