Distros geared towards multimedia development?

[TnT]

Anyone know of any distros that are packed with multimedia development tools? Or are there to few tools to form a distro around and I'm better off doing it myself?

Thanks,
Thien

[Gear]

There's DeMuDi and ReHmudi . Also, Gentoo has lots of mmedia apps in its portage system.
Also check this article and this one about Film Gimp.

Hope this helps, and let us know how/what apps are working, after you decide on your distro.

[TnT]

I read up on Film GIMP and that's what made me think about a mm distro

It may be a while before I get everything setup though once school started I haven't had time to play around with anything. I currently have Mandrake 8.1, but for the life of me I can't get all the stuff I need to get xawtv compiled, I think it has to do with the xfree86-devel package that came with the distro. So I planned on waiting for 9.1 and updating, but now I'm thinking I should just get a different distro altogether.

Thanks for the links these look good.

[nikai]

I like the idea of Agnula (DeMuDi, ReHMuDi) as a definition of a common ground for multimedia software.
The progress of these projects surely is to the benefit of all distributions.

AFAIK, the FilmGimp is a very specialized tool for the specific needs of image manipulation in the film industry. When talking about multimedia, I'm rather thinking of software like Cinelerra

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

[leech]

Originally posted by TnT
I read up on Film GIMP and that's what made me think about a mm distro

It may be a while before I get everything setup though once school started I haven't had time to play around with anything. I currently have Mandrake 8.1, but for the life of me I can't get all the stuff I need to get xawtv compiled, I think it has to do with the xfree86-devel package that came with the distro. So I planned on waiting for 9.1 and updating, but now I'm thinking I should just get a different distro altogether.

Thanks for the links these look good.

Debian is the answer, at least as far as xawtv goes, works flawlessly here, 'apt-get install xawtv' works like a charm. Though I personally use Zapping which is the tv viewer for gnome. KwinTV also is in the debian repository. All DeMudi is, is a standard debian install, that automatically will install the multimedia stuff (at least as far as I can tell) they're also working on a Deb-Med for medical institutions.

Leech

[TnT]

FilmGIMP is useful for rotoscoping, last time I did that for a school project I had to capture each frame individually, edit them in a picture editor I was familiar with, and then import it into Premiere, because I didn't have any tools explicitely for doing that. So it would be nice if I can do that stuff with FilmGIMP since I'm now learning how to use GIMP.

I really want to try out Cinelerra too, much rather use that then Premiere 5. Although my machine is no where near the recommended specs .

Anyone know if there is anything similiar to VirtualDub? Just an easy but powerful tool for basic editing and compressing?

Well that is why I'm looking for a distro, because I really don't know all the tools out there that I should take a look at.