bits from the DPL: June 2012

[Fabian Greffrath]

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!
"

What do you think?

  - Fabian