[wellylug] Debian - Multimedia - Dependency Hell

[Jonathan Harker]

Carl Turney wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Going to set up a clean new Debian Etch system, for home use.
> 
> In addition to the bog-standard OpenOffice, FireFox (IceWeasel?),
> ThunderBird (IceDove?), I want to be able to...
> - capture, rip, save, convert, basic-edit, play, and burn
> - audio, video (NTSC, PAL, maybe SECAM) and still pictures
> - to and from CDs, VCDs, and DVDs ... and maybe some day - these MP3
> players kids have around their necks.
> 
> (Don't have a video capture card and/or TV tuner card, yet.  But have a
> big load of favourite VCR tapes I want to convert and edit, in my spare
> time in the future.)

You could use one of the Debian-based distributions specially customised 
for multimedia/DAW work, such as Demudi or UbuntuStudio, instead of 
trying to start from scratch with etch. That way, some other poor saps 
have done most the work for you.

Otherwise there's always http://www.debian-unofficial.org/