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Title: CasparCG Server for TV broadcast playout in Debian
Tags: english, video, frikanalen, multimedia
Date: 2019-01-15 00:10

<p>The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television,
<a href="https://casparcg.com/">CasparCG Server</a>, entered Debian
today.  This completes many months of work to get the source ready to
go into Debian.  The first upload to the Debian NEW queue happened a
month ago, but the work upstream to prepare it for Debian started more
than two and a half month ago.  So far
<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/casparcg-server">the
casparcg-server package</a> is only available for amd64, but I hope
this can be improved.  The package is in contrib because it depend on
the <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdk-aac">non-free fdk-aac
library</a>.  The Debian package lack support for streaming web pages
because Debian is missing CEF, Chromium Embedded Framework.  CEF is
wanted by several packages in Debian.  But because the Chromium source
is <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/893448">not available as a build
dependency</a>, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian.  I
hope this will change in the future.</p>

<p>The reason I got involved is that
<a href="https://frikanalen.no/">the Norwegian open channel
Frikanalen</a> is starting to use CasparCG for our HD playout, and I
would like to have all the free software tools we use to run the TV
channel available as packages from the Debian project.  The last
remaining piece in the puzzle is Open Broadcast Encoder, but it depend
on quite a lot of patched libraries which would have to be included in
Debian first.</p>

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