Defining interesting multimedia tasks

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:17:18PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On 17/08/10 17:54, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>  * multimedia (depends on multimedia-gtk | multimedia-playback)
>>  * multimedia-gnome (provides multimedia-playback; depends on
>>    Qt/Phonon-based and KDE apps)
>>  * multimedia-gtk (provides multimedia-playback; depends on
>>    GTK/GStreamer and GNOME apps)
>>  * multimedia-light (provides multimedia-playback; depends on
>>    apps _not_ linked against desktop-homogenizing libraries)
>>  * multimedia-tiny (provides multimedia-playback; depends on
>>    apps targeted embedded devices)
>
>I believe that each DE will have installed it's own media player. Is 
>there really a need for multimedia-{gnome,kde,gtk} tasks?

ok.

I was imagining that there was more to it than a "media player", but 
thinking more about it I cannot come up with a sensible split: Those 
(like me) favoring MPD will cherry-pick based on that. No point in 
trying to group media players - they are either catch-all integrated 
with a desktop or aiming at something specific which you then have a 
specific interest in.


>>  * multimedia-pro-studio (depends on "classic" GUI style
>>    production tools like Ardour, JACK and Hydrogen)
>>  * multimedia-pro-live (depends on production tools designed
>>    for live mixing of audio and video)
>>  * multimedia-pro-devel (depends on scripting and programming
>>    tools like PureData and CSound)
>
>While I know that the tasks are not meant to be disjoint sets, I think 
>that this split has too much overlap. In particular, both csound and 
>puredata can be (and are frequently) used for live coding, and I 
>suspect all sound programming languages can be too. So 
>multimedia-pro-devel would be contained within multimedia-pro-live.
>Or maybe it is something else you are splitting on and I'm just 
>confused by the names?

Do any of us developers actually use e.g. VJ'ing tools?

I have the impression that those performing favor different tools than 
those e.g. composing electronica.  And that both camps typically use not 
a single tool by a range of them together.  I might be totally wrong.

I am well aware that each user has a personal favorite setup.  We cannot 
serve all.  Skolelinux also do not serve all needs schools _can_ have, 
but offer an easy way to install a sensible system (which happen to be 
KDE-based, which I personally dislike).


  - Jonas

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