Easy Debian Wheezy Multimedia

Contents

Development path

Aims and origins

Starting from rcolistete's "wheezy" upgrade of Sulu's Scientific image, this is a bells-and-whistles image (warning: possible bloatware) with lots of 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.

Disk image specifications

The image has been enlarged to an ext4 image of 4GB in size (well, 4GB minus one byte), which is the largest file that will fit on a FAT32 filesystem. If you need a larger root filesystem than that, you'll have to use a dedicated partition. 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