Hi Stefano, Am 04.07.2012 17:06, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli:
On the other hand, what I wonder is whether we really need to get to that level of detail in the release note. Communication wise, it doesn't seem particularly appealing to me. How about mentioning the use cases (e.g. encoding/decoding music for common portable music players, encoding video for $kind_of_hardware, etc. --- I don't know what the use cases actually are, but you surely know better on that front)? I think that could be more appealing for release notes readers.
I see your point, the paragraph is indeed very technical and detailed. But it was my intention to use all these "buzz words".
All the use cases were already addressed before. You could rip your CDs in Debian (to e.g. Vorbis or FLAC) and convert the audio files into a format suitable for your media player (really? maybe only MP2 then). But now we have lame and we have MP3, that makes a big difference.
Similarly, you could get video data from your DVDs and store the movies in e.g. Theora or Dirac format. But now we have x264 and xvidcore, which again makes a difference.
We did have vlc and mencoder before. But now they are fully feature-enabled.
Do a search for "debian mencoder" in google. Everybody and his dog seem to believe that we either do not have this package in Debian or that it's crippled and recommends installing it from d-m.o.
That's why I ecplicitely mentioned these packages and codecs in the paragraph.
Bye, - Fabian _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
