Bugzilla Bug 59377

Hi

Please find attached acast-0.16.ebuild.

acast is a program for webcasting audio from your sound device to a variety of different streaming servers.

Its features include:

#  can stream the audio in Ogg Vorbis (http://www.xiph.org) to Icecast 2.x (http://www.icecast.org) servers and in mp3 to all the servers mentioned above
# the webcast stream can also be recorded to disk
# an extra higher quality stream can also be recorded to disk
# wav files ready to be burnt onto cd can also be recorded to disk
# GTK+2 interface as well as a console interface (useful for remote starting of streams)
# All the streams (webcast and recording ones) can be individually started and stopped dynamically while the streams are running
# the recording filenames can also be changed, thus allowing a conference to have separate files for each speaker, without interrupting the broadcast
# same stream can be webcast to multiple servers, by adding relays
# acast uses GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) and it is this that makes acast possible.

It requires:

>=gtk+-2.4.0
>=gstreamer-0.8.4
>=gst-plugins-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-shout2-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-gnomevfs-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-xvideo-0.8.3

and optionally on use flags:

>=gst-plugins-oss-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-esd-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.3
>=gst-plugins-lame-0.8.3

Created an attachment (id=36741) [details]
acast-0.16.ebuild

Created an attachment (id=37249) [details]
acast-0.17.ebuild

New version of acast.  Changes include:

#  make visualisation disappear when stopped
# fix file naming scheme to use stream number instead of bitrate
# added support for using gnome-media profiles for recording
# added support for using Gnome default audio source and a configure option to
enable/disable gnome support
# implemented file menu operations on gui
# implemented instant-apply for preferences
# moved the gst stuff from do_live_stream to acast_setup_gst_pipeline and
acast_start_gst_pipeline methods
# large scale gui interface changes
# made into a gnome program (if in gui mode and configure flag enabled)
# plugged some memory leaks and cleaned up some gst code
# removed the HScales completely and made it only use vumeters
# removed peak and decaying peak vumeters, only have one vumeter per channels
howing rms and peak
# changed vumeter so both rms and peak can be displayed on same vumeter

Gnome team,

This sounds a little like a gnome package.
Let me know if you guys wanna pick this up.
I'll take it if not.

This still would need bug 59373 to be looked at though.

Ideally, under the proposed GNOME-split herds, this would be placed under
media-video, with the gnome herd as secondary maintainers as we can look at
gstreamer/gtk/gnome etc build problems. Please keep us on as secondary
maintainers Chris, thanks.

Guys in my opinion it is better suited under media-sound as it is sound only,
there is no video at all.

It is a Gnome app or a Gtk app as well as a console app.  The gnome
dependencies go away if you use ./configure --enable-gnome=no

Also, there should be no issue at all bumping up the gstreamer and gst-plugins
ebuild versions as the new versions fix issues and have caused no regressions.

The site appears to be down.. I'll check it again later.

Their site is still down.  Don't feel like commiting a package where the
upstream site is down this much.. doesn't give me too much comfort as far
as upstream contact.  If you can reach the upstream devs though, feel free
to re-open this bug and I'll take a look.

the reporter is the upstream dev...

the oss, alsa & esd deps can be dropped.. they're already handled by the gst-plugins package.
The keywords should probably be reset.
The G2CONF line can probably use 'use_enable'

Sorry web server ethernet plug was unplugged accidentally while I was on
vacation in Toronto, just got back.  Site should be up again.

Created an attachment (id=40391) [details]
acast-0.18.ebuild

version bump and fixed a few of the issues in the ebuild

ok fixed a few more things in ebuild, and changed upstream download location to
somewhere more permanent.  Committed.