bits from the DPL: June 2012

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:42:23AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > 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!
> > "

BTW, I'm catching up with DebConf videos, and the release team rightly
called for contributions to the http://wiki.debian.org/NewInWheezy wiki
page. I've uncommented some info there about multimedia codecs, but I've
no idea why they were commented and I've added an explicit note to
contact you to verify its correctness.

Can you please review them and/or (better "and", in fact) report a bug
against release-notes to ensure these important information for desktop
users get included in the release notes?

Thanks!
Cheers.
-- 
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