Easy Debian Wheezy Multimedia
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Revision as of 21:06, 28 August 2012
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Development
Preamble
This image starts from rcolistete's "wheezy" Scientific image (thanks!) and aims to be a bells-and-whistles image (warning: possible bloatware) with lots of new multimedia software thrown in. In particular, this includes MP3 tagging and renaming software, audio file format converters, normaliser, audio editor and a variety of MP3 players and organisers.
Key aims
- Advanced MP3 functionality to complement the use of the N900 as a mobile music player, including MP3 taggers, renamers, normalisers, file format converters etc.
- Maintain the expected core functionality of Easy Debian, i.e. LibreOffice, GIMP, etc.
Specifications
Package selection
Packages are largely selected from Debian "wheezy", except where dependencies on a newer version of PulseAudio would prohibit this. Therefore, the image is an injudicious mixture of oldstable, stable and testing; packages are selected on a best effort basis.
Disk image
The disk image has been enlarged to 4GB in size (well, 4GB minus one byte), which is the largest file that will fit on a FAT32 filesystem, and converted (well, copied over) to the ext4 filesystem. The use of ext4 means that you will require a relatively recent kernel-power & CSSU to mount and use the image, but it does offer slight performance advantages over ext3.
Software included
Internet
- Chromium web browser (from Squeeze)
- Iceweasel web browser (10.0.6)
- Icedove e-mail client (10.0.6)
Office
- AbiWord
- LibreOffice
Audio / Video
- XMMS2
- gXMMS2
- Abraca
- GJay 0.3.2
- QASTools
- QASMixer
- QASHCTL
- QASConfig
- SoundConverter
- EasyMP3Gain-GTK 0.5.1
- mp3gain
- vorbisgain
- aacgain
- Musicbrainz Picard 1.0
- MP3 Diags 1.0.11
- Audacity 1.3.12 (from stable) - the version from "testing" depends on a newer version of libportaudio2, but ours is held back for pulseaudio compatibility.
Still needing work
LAMP environment
MythTV 0.24 (from stable)
The version from "testing" depends on a newer verson of libpulse0