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.
+ +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.
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