Bug#946641: stops: Mark stops as 'Multi-Arch: foreign'

2019-12-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Bernhard, Marking stops as 'Multi-Arch: foreign' should make that installation possible. The package 'stops' contains binary instrument data, which as far as I know, is uniquely created by the undocumented and well-hidden instrument editor feature in aeolus (hold down Ctrl then

Bug#933095: ambdec: Package description could be updated to mention third order signals

2019-07-26 Thread Daniel James
Package: ambdec Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainers, The package description for ambdec says: Ambisonic decoder for first and second order However, the long description for this package says: It can be used for both horizontal and full 3-D systems of first, second and third

Re: Bug#907293: stops: Please consider making another upload and refreshing package

2018-08-28 Thread Daniel James
Hi Boyuan, > I am not proposing to remove this package; instead I was proposing of having > MIA team involved and (orphan this package) / (have other maintainers taken > this package care of) That should not be necessary since it is maintained by debian-multimedia. I agree it needs a rebuild

Re: Bug#907293: stops: Please consider making another upload and refreshing package

2018-08-28 Thread Daniel James
Hi Boyuan, > Dear stops maintainer (Hi Free Ekanayaka) Maintainer for this package is Debian Multimedia Team, it's just that Free was the last uploader. > I was cleaning up packages that hasn't receive any upload in Debian for a > long > time and noticed that your package, stops, received no

Re: sonic-visualiser is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-06-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi Petter, > have not heard from any of the other team > members for a while, lack a mailing list to communicate with them It seems this was one of the mailing lists not migrated away from alioth. Would it make sense for all the Xiph packages to be managed via

Re: sonic-visualiser is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-06-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, On 21/06/18 05:40, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > sonic-visualiser 3.0.3-4 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2018-07-16 > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs: > 899571: libfishsound: Invalid maintainer address > pkg-xiph-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: debian-multimedia: wiki question

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Fabian, > it is highly discouraged to add this repository due to known > breakage and incompatibilities Yes indeed :-) Funny how old info can last a long, long time online. Cheers! Daniel

Re: debian-multimedia: wiki question

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, hi Toerless, >> How to add Debian Multimedia to your system. > I'm not sure I understand your question exactly. If you want to install > some multimedia packages, there is no need to "add Debian Multimedia" - I think this confusion stems from the time when debian-multimedia.org was an

Re: DABlin main or multimedia?

2017-08-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frans, > what advice would you > have for the other software tools sets created by ODR? The same team? Yes indeed, there is a lot of specialist knowledge in this field that doesn't cross over much into the regular multimedia packaging tasks. These are very cool tools and it would be great to

Re: DABlin main or multimedia?

2017-08-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frans, > My question, fits DABlin better with main or multimedia? For software defined radio the best team might be https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHams https://blends.debian.org/hamradio/tasks/sdr does include receiver applications. Cheers! Daniel

Re: Bodies shaking

2015-01-07 Thread Daniel James
Hi John, These fem@les are pleasing themselves with machines!!! Yes, because they run Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Demo music in Debian?

2014-12-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Fabian, there is the sound-theme-freedesktop package which is pulled in by all big desktop environments and contains a lot of sounds that could be used as demo music. Unfortunately, the sound files are rather well hidden in the file system in /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo That

Enabling ALSA's dsnoop the Debian way

2013-10-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, On a wheezy system, /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/README says: You can place files named *.conf in this folder and they will be processed when initialising alsa-lib. Files in the alsa.conf.d directory are included by /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf so I thought this should work: sudo cp

Re: recent sound cards (available in India) which work on Debian wheezy

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Faheem, is there a good PCIe sound card that is well supported by Linux? You could look at RME cards, but these may be massively overspecified for what you need. My suggestion would be to go for class-compliant USB audio in most use cases. If you could describe how you use your soundcard

Re: Debian tablet computer

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel James
Hi Louis, If I write you today, it's because we are trying to make possible a free tablet computer for schools. If I may offer a perspective as a distro developer and parent of a 12-year-old whose school has an ineffective netbook deployment, it's not really about the hardware. In my view,

Re: About sound card support

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rupesh, previously I have used squeeze and wheezy testing (weekly build) and there was no hardware support for my sound card so I have to download drivers from vendors site and compile it. My hardware details: AMD FX 4100 cpu GIGABYTE 78LMT S2PT motherboard Audio Chipset Realtek

Re: About sound card support

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rupesh, I am able to play music files in other linux distros like Fedora19,opensuse 12.2 by installing mp3 codecs without installation of drivers from me. OK, that is a different issue, the mp3 codec is totally separate from ALSA driver support for your sound chip. Can you play a .wav file

Re: Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or the future of TangoStudio)

2012-11-12 Thread Daniel James
. Cheers! Daniel James Director 64 Studio Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a0c6c6.90...@64studio.com

Re: List of required packages.

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Weaver, Playback failure: DVDRead could not open the disc /dev/dvd. Check that the symlink /dev/dvd points to your DVD drive like this: ls -l /dev/dvd If you get: ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory then you either need to create the symlink, or specify the correct

Re: Very helpful responses, thank you listmembers

2011-03-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Diego, I think that last beta version of 64studio has lxde insted gnome We did look at LXDE as an option, but for our next release (4.0, Squeeze-based) we'll be going back to GNOME. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: What's the best audio software to set up on a 32-bit processor?

2011-03-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Charlie, Find a Debian release (upgradeable) specifically for multimedia and start again (remember everything is 32-bit, will Studio 64 work)? If you choose the 32-bit version, yes. Buy components to build me an up-to-date computer? The spec you have will be fine to get started with.

Re: Handbrake - broken build

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, The build of handbrake that is in debian-multimedia is broken. Would it be possible to update it? This list is quiet these days, the action has moved to: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers I don't think handbrake is a Debian package, did you

JACK2 package naming convention

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, I have built some JACK2 (1.9.3) debs for Lenny, and Ubuntu Hardy and Jaunty, based on the Debianization by Nedko Arnaudov. However some users still want to use JACK1 versions (such as 0.116.2), pointing out that some features are not yet fully available in JACK2. For instance,

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Reinhard, # ldconfig -p | grep jack libjackserver.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) = /usr/lib/libjackserver.so.0 libjack.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) = /usr/lib/libjack.so.0 libjack.so.0 (libc6) = /usr/lib32/libjack.so.0 libjack.so (libc6) = /usr/lib32/libjack.so this looks

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, Cannot connect ports owned by inactive clients: amSynth is not active This is simple to fix. The process callback return value was ignored in jack1, so everybody returned 0. In jack2, returning 0 means problems, so you just return 1 (true) and everything is fine. The patch I sent

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, No problems over here with plain jack2-1.9.2. Works out of the box. Same is true for amsynth: works like a charm with jack2. Are you sure your jack2 package is in good shape? ;) Possibly an update to 1.9.2 would fix this, perhaps upstream have put in some backwards compatibility

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, Are you sure your jack2 package is in good shape? ;) I just did a source build of 1.9.2 in /usr/local using waf, it works fine for Hydrogen, but neither amsynth or mx44 packages work. Did you build your amsynth and mx44 from source? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, amsynth cannot be used with jack. This cannot be true. I just tried it on two different machines To clarify, amsynth works with original JACK but not JACK 2, a.k.a jackdmp. This is because amsynth's JACK connection code is a little non-standard, and needs a rewrite to bring it

Bug#522150: amsynth: Depends on libjack0.100.0-0

2009-04-02 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, jack2 is not going to be in debian soonish JACK 2 has been the upstream release since February, so I hope it will be in Sid soon. we are transitioning from versioned jack packages to unversioned ones, so this should be fixed anyways. Well, JACK 2 is a complete rewrite so

Bug#522150: amsynth: Depends on libjack0.100.0-0

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, The Debian Multimedia Maintainers will be dropping libjack0.100.0-0 soon, so you should switch to using upstream's default name. Changing libjack0.100.0-0 to libjack0 in debian/control and dropping debian/patches/80_libjack.dpatch should be enough. Unfortunately not in the longer

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, Ardour embedded many libraries that could easily be stripped out: they were just convenience copies. Or put another way, known working copies for quality control purposes :-) Ardour developers can't be expected to support binaries that distros break. I agree this is not best

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Raffaele, Why only in 64studio and not in plain Debian? maybe if they did it on debian nobody would pick up 64 studio anymore... We have been contributing to Debian for years. The reason for a specialist distribution is that official Debian does not support multimedia

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Raffaele, Debian does not support multimedia desktop/laptop users 'out of the box'. If you all were coding for debian packages probably they will ;-) We do, but what the Debian project chooses to make a priority is not under the control of the small multimedia packaging team. For example,

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Raffaele, I can't go in deep about debian packages accept/reject workflow and policy stuff but non-free repository should allow some compromise in these direction... It wasn't about free versus non-free (for once), it was that Ardour developers were forced to embedded their own forked

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, - FFADO: libfreebob is outdated, there are so many users in #ffado asking for FFADO packages. We're aiming to have this package in 64 Studio 3.0, we also need to change our 2.6.29-rc4 kernel to support the old firewire stack though. New package: http://calf.sf.net. IMHO,

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, - FFADO: libfreebob is outdated, there are so many users in #ffado asking for FFADO packages. We're aiming to have this package in 64 Studio 3.0, we also need to change our 2.6.29-rc4 kernel to support the old firewire stack though. Why only in 64studio and not in plain

Re: how can I contribute?

2009-01-08 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, Can I invite more people to join the Debian-multimedia team and improve Debian for music production? Do you need more people to contribute? I think help is always welcome. I think it's a question of finding the right tasks for the right people though. Debian welcomes experienced

Re: how can I contribute?

2009-01-06 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, I was thinking of building one or more packages which are not yet in Debian. I'm interested in 'music-making-applications'... I would strongly recommend that you only package applications which you personally use, which gives you the strongest incentive to maintain them. You might

Re: introduction / problem with video files

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Boris, I bought a digital video camcorder and have big troubles with the produced file format. It's a Toshiba Gigashot K80HE. Try a recent version of vlc or mplayer for playback, they are more likely to support this format than totem. Now I want to process the files on my desktop PC and

Re: liblo0-dev

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Free, the Debian Multimedia Team in general is seriously lacking man power at the moment :( Is there a statistic which will help us identify which packages are falling behind? Something like a chart showing Sid version against upstream version, perhaps? The charts at

Re: liblo0-dev

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, hi all, I think that merging with the pkg-multimedia team would make some sense. At least there would be more than 1 DD to sponsor potential contributors. Sounds good - are there any objections to the idea? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-07-23 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, Has there been any progress in getting any version of ardour into Lenny? Not as far as I know, so no useful info from me. But, I just wanted to note that 2.5 was recently released and might possibly resolve the non-security bugs (maybe, hopefully?) At the moment, the main issue

Re: Conflicts when repackaging JACK

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel James
Hi Nick, I think these are the pertinent lines: libjack0.100.0-0 depends on libjack0 (= 0.109.2-3mlrepo1); however: Version of libjack0 on system is 0.109.2-2mepcom1. libjack-dev depends on libjack0 (= 0.109.2-3mlrepo1); however: Version of libjack0 on system is 0.109.2-2mepcom1.

Bug#482509: idjc: FTBFS: Nonexistent build-dependency: liblame-dev

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel James
Hi Peter, IMO it is a very bad idea to have a package build against a legally dubious library just because the system it was built on happened to have it installed. lame itself is not legally dubious, it's just unfortunate in being liable to software patent enforcement on MP3 encoding.

Bug#446405: ardour: Embeds too many libs

2008-05-29 Thread Daniel James
Hi Antony, It's a shame this hasn't been looked at yet. I hope ardour makes it into Lenny. Various people are working on this - the latest plan is to get a new release of libsndfile upstream, so that Ardour doesn't need to embed a copy. I have been doing a little research into this, and

Is anyone packaging or testing LADSPA v2 (slv2) ?

2008-05-08 Thread Daniel James
Hello all, I was curious if anyone is packaging or just testing LADSPA v2, a.k.a slv2? There are some Debian packages available here: http://download.drobilla.net/debian/ I think we need this for Lenny. Apart from the eye-candy aspect offered by Lv2's native GUI's, I believe there is much

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-08 Thread Daniel James
Hi Paul, About libsndfile, how about the Debian libsndfile source package is modified so that it produces a normal libsndfile library and a libsndfile-ardour for ardour to build against. Or how about the libsndfile1 Debian package maintainer, Anand Kumria, is asked to apply the Ardour team's

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel James
Hi Paul W, Does anyone know if the below stuff are external libraries? I know that clearlooks is a gtk theme and libsndfile is an external library, but I'm not sure about the rest. libraries['vamp'] = LibraryInfo (LIBS='vampsdk', LIBPATH='#libs/vamp-sdk',

Which is the official Debian logo colour?

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel James
Hello folks, I'm hoping there might be someone on the list who can give me a definitive answer on this :-) I'm preparing some new graphics for the 64 Studio site, which include the Debian logo. I've taken a look at the various logo files (PNG, SVG, JPEG, EPS, XCF) on

Re: CinePaint removed from testing

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel James
Hi Robin, Can someone here take that on, become the CinePaint Debian maintainer? Ideally it would be someone who is a regular CinePaint user. Could you survey the CinePaint userbase to find out if you have any Debian Developers among them? What do we do about the issue that CinePaint

Re: CinePaint removed from testing

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, There was an attempt to reintroduce it to debian by Thanasis Kinias, but so far nothing has happened. I suggest Robin gets in touch with Thanasis to figure this one out, and get a GTK+ 2 build together. It's true that this application has no replacement in Debian, or the free

Bug#450806: libjack0: does not allow connecting to two JACK servers

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frank, Do you know if this patch has been accepted upstream? No, I haven't reported it upstream, only via Debian. I think it might be a good idea to get the view of the upstream developers on this patch, because as I understand it, jack_diplomat is undocumented and unmaintained. I

Bug#436330: vkeybd: FTBFS: error: linux/awe_voice.h: No such file or directory

2007-08-07 Thread Daniel James
Hi Lucas, During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386. oper_awe.c: In function 'seq_open': oper_awe.c:146: error: 'SAMPLE_TYPE_AWE32' undeclared (first use in this function) In the Makefile from the original source package, it says: # device selections

Re: ardour

2007-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Igor, I try to use ardour-1:2.0.2-2 and get the following output: ***MEMORY-WARNING***: [26416]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi jj, The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? Even easier, you can right click on the clock in Gnome and select Adjust Date Time :-) I installed datetimeconf It might be best to uninstall that, it

Bug#427471: A more accurate short description

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel James
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Re: create_0.1.3-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel James
Hi Joerg, The package name is a little bit too generic - create. And yes, even if its upstreams name (a very bad name selection looking at its contents). How about 'creative-resources' for a package name? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#422076: Re: Bug#422076: Can not start jackd, fails with Illegal instruction

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Mihkel, I installed 0.103.0-1 and jack will start. Could you post the output of: cat /proc/cpuinfo please? I believe these optimisations require SSE or 3DNow! to be available on your CPU. If your CPU is older than Pentium III, it may not have them. Cheers! Daniel -- To

Re: LinuxSampler?

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, A valid concern, probably, but one anybody developing GPL code could have! That's true, but in this case the risk is higher than usual. Firstly because music hardware companies have poor awareness of the GPL, compared to say... network hardware companies (and some of them are bad

Re: Any plans for packaging Aeolus?

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Tomas, I just wanted to ask if there are any plans for including the pipe organ emulator Aeolus in Debian. We have it on our to-do list for 64 Studio, so it will get uploaded to Debian unstable at some point. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: debconf7

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Herman, Debian installer already has tasksel. I propose two new tasks: a) Audio workstation b) Video workstation It might be harder to separate these out in future, because many video tools have audio features, and some, like Open Movie Editor, are integrated with Jack transport. You

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, Musix kernels are packaged by Tapani Raikkonen This may have changed recently, but last month they used our 2.6.17 package in their 0.99 release, see under 'New Software Packages' here: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2007-March/000932.html The more

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Marco, 1) A multimedia/desktop oriented kernel like the one in 64Studio or here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/kernel/n I believe Musix now uses the 64 Studio kernel packages, so that's one less variable ;-) Ubuntu Studio is not going for a Molnar-style RT kernel, according