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  10                 <title>The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  15 &lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  16 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  17 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  18 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  19 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  20 notes are available on
  21 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;the
  22 Debian wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  23 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  24 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  25 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  26 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  27 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn&#39;t supported by the
  28 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  29 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.&lt;/p&gt;
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  32 be the only one fitting our needs. :/&lt;/p&gt;
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  37                 <title>Devcamp brought us closer to the Lenny based Debian Edu release</title>
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  40                 <pubDate>Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  42 &lt;p&gt;This weekend we had a small developer gathering for Debian Edu in
  43 Oslo.  Most of Saturday was used for the general assemly for the
  44 member organization, but the rest of the weekend I used to tune the
  45 LTSP installation.  LTSP now work out of the box on the 10-network.
  46 Acer Aspire One proved to be a very nice thin client, with both
  47 screen, mouse and keybard in a small box.  Was working on getting the
  48 diskless workstation setup configured out of the box, but did not
  49 finish it before the weekend was up.&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &lt;p&gt;Did not find time to look at the 4 VGA cards in one box we got from
  52 the Brazilian group, so that will have to wait for the next
  53 development gathering.  Would love to have the Debian Edu installer
  54 automatically detect and configure a multiseat setup when it find one
  55 of these cards.&lt;/p&gt;
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  60                 <title>Software video mixer on a USB stick</title>
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  63                 <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  65 &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt; is
  66 recording our montly presentation on video, and recently we have
  67 worked on improving the quality of the recordings by mixing the slides
  68 directly with the video stream.  For this, we use the
  69 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/&quot;&gt;dvswitch&lt;/a&gt; package from
  70 the Debian video team.  As this require quite one computer per video
  71 source, and NUUG do not have enough laptops available, we need to
  72 borrow laptops.  And to avoid having to install extra software on
  73 these borrwed laptops, I have wrapped up all the programs needed on a
  74 bootable USB stick.  The software required is dvswitch with assosiated
  75 source, sink and mixer applications and
  76 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kinodv.org/&quot;&gt;dvgrab&lt;/a&gt;.  To allow this setup to
  77 work without any configuration, I&#39;ve patched dvswitch to use
  78 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avahi.org/&quot;&gt;avahi&lt;/a&gt; to connect the various parts
  79 together.  And to allow us to use laptops without firewire plugs, I
  80 upgraded dvgrab to the one from Debian/unstable to get one that work
  81 with USB sources.  We have not yet tested this setup in a production
  82 setup, but I hope it will work properly, and allow us to set up a
  83 video mixer in a very short time frame.  We will need it for
  84 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goopen.no/&quot;&gt;Go Open 2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  85
  86 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/video/bin/usbstick-dvswitch.img.gz&quot;&gt;The
  87 USB image&lt;/a&gt; is for a 1 GB memory stick, but can be used on any
  88 larger stick as well.&lt;/p&gt;
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