From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:07:25 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Announce casparcg-server in Debian. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/76754b531a4a41ef2c1dba2677a68f342419a72f?ds=inline;hp=e2237d0e891367aba9db239b250870273f7ea520 Announce casparcg-server in Debian. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2019-01-15-frikanalen-casparcg-debian.txt b/blog/data/2019-01-15-frikanalen-casparcg-debian.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f70308561d --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2019-01-15-frikanalen-casparcg-debian.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Title: CasparCG Server for TV broadcast playout in Debian +Tags: english, video, frikanalen, multimedia +Date: 2019-01-15 00:10 + +

The layered video playout server created by Sveriges Television, +CasparCG Server, 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 +the +casparcg-server package is only available for amd64, but I hope +this can be improved. The package is in contrib because it depend on +the non-free fdk-aac +library. 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 not available as a build +dependency, it is not yet possible to upload CEF to Debian. I +hope this will change in the future.

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The reason I got involved is that +the Norwegian open channel +Frikanalen 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.