Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

[Alessio Treglia]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> When was our last news?

Nearly 4 years ago! We are not that good at marketing our work, aren't we? :)

> I guess my last exciting action here was adding
> Flowblade.  It entered testing more than a year ago, but I don't think
> it has been promoted much.

I didn't even notice it, looks amazing. Yeah, definitely worth a mention!

> Not "mine" but probably worth mentioning that a slew of LADSPA stuff has
> been dropped: jackrack (and some other hosts I believe - just cannot
> remember which) - seems the only independent host for LADSPA now is
> jalv+naspro.  Also Calf has dropped support for LADSPA.  Reason I care
> about LADSPA is that MLT framework has support for that but not LV2.

Agreed, the LADSPA thing is a pretty important one.

> Should we also think about stuff relevant to include in release notes,
> then there is definitely the introduction of VP9 and Opus codecs.

Agreed.

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