-libHermes (for colorspace conversions; you need this for any video work)
- http://www.clanlib.org/hermes/
-libaudiofile (for afsrc/afsink
- http://oss.sgi.com/projects/audiofile/
-libmad (for the mad mp3 decoder plugin)
- http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/
-libjpeg (for jpegenc/jpegdec)
- http://www.ijg.org/
-libopenquicktime (for the QT plugin)
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/openquicktime/
-libXv (for videosink)
-libxaudio (for xa mp3 decoder)
- http://www.xaudio.com/
-libvorbis (for vorbisenc, vorbisdec)
- http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html
-libcdparanoia (for cdparanoia ripper)
- http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/index.html
-liblame (for lame mp3 encoder)
- http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
-libshout (for the shoutcast plugin)
- http://www.icecast.org
-libasound (for the alsa src/sink plugin)
- http://alsa-project.org/
-librtp (for the rtp sink plugin)
- http://www.linphone.org/ortp/
-aalib (for the aa sink plugin)
- http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
-aRts (for the arts plugin wrapper, and the artsd sink)
- http://www.arts-project.org
-raw1394/linux1394 (for the dv plugin)
- http://linux1394.sourceforge.net
-libdvdread (for the dvdsrc)
- http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/
- (optional: libcss for encrypted DVDs)
-libdvdnav (for the dvdnavsrc)
- http://dvd.sourceforge.net/
- (optional: libcss for encrypted DVDs)
- >= 0.1.9
-libesound (for the esd sink
- ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound)
-gnome-vfs (for the gnome-vfs src)
- >= 2.4.0
-libgsm (for the gsm plugin)
- http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html
-sdl (for the sdl sink)
- http://www.libsdl.org
-xmms (for the xmms plugins wrapper)
- http://www.xmms.org
-mpeg2dec/a52dec (for mpeg2 related plugins and dvd playback)
- http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
- and http://liba52.sourceforge.net/
- >= v0.3.1/v0.7.2
-swfdec (for the swfdec plugin)
- http://swfdec.sourceforge.net
- >= 0.2.0
-flac (for the FLAC lossless audio format)
- http://flac.sourceforge.net
- >= 1.0.3 preferred, 1.0.2 should work
-gtk (for the gdk_pixbuf plugin)
- http://www.gtk.org/
- >= 2.2.1 preferred, 2.0 ok
-pango (for the textoverlay plugins)
- http://www.pango.org/
-libHermes (for colorspace conversion;most use ffcolorspace instead)
- http://www.clanlib.org/hermes/
-
-
-Optional debian packages:
-=========================
-
-gtk-doc-tools 0.4-0.2 -- needed to build documentation
+Package: Orc
+Version: >= 0.4.5
+Recommended: 0.4.latest
+URL: http://code.entropywave.com/orc
+DebianPackage: liborc-0.4-dev
+Notes: Used by many plugins for accelerating processing
+
+Package: GTK+
+Version: >= 2.0
+Recommended: >= 2.2
+URL: http://www.gtk.org/
+DebianPackage: libgtk2.0-dev
+Plugins: gdkpixbuf (gdkpixbufdec, gdkpixbufscale)
+Notes: Also required by several examples. Plugin require >= 2.2.
+
+Package: Check
+DebianPackage: check
+URL: http://check.sourceforge.net/
+
+Package: Xlib
+Plugins: ximagesrc, v4l2
+DebianPackage: libx11-dev libxv-dev libxt-dev
+
+Package: AALib
+Plugins: aasink
+URL: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
+
+Package: LibXML
+Version: >= 2.4.9
+Plugins: annodex (cmmlenc, cmmldec)
+URL: http://xmlsoft.org/
+
+Package: Cairo
+Version: >= 1.0
+Plugins: cairo (cairotextoverlay, cairotimeoverlay)
+URL: http://cairographics.org/
+
+Package: CDIO
+Version: >= 0.71
+Plugins: cdio (cdiocddasrc)
+URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/
+
+Package: FLAC
+Version: == 1.1.2
+Plugins: flac (flacenc, flacdec)
+URL: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
+
+Package: HAL
+Version: >= 0.5.6
+Plugins: halelements (halaudiosink, halaudiosrc)
+URL: http://hal.freedesktop.org/
+
+Package: IJG JPEG library
+Plugins: jpeg (jpegenc, jpegdec, smokeenc, smokedec)
+URL: http://www.ijg.org/
+
+Package: LADSPA
+Plugins: ladspa
+URL: http://www.ladspa.org/
+
+Package: Libcaca
+Plugins: cacasink
+URL: http://libcaca.zoy.org/
+
+Package: Libdv
+Version: >= 0.100
+Plugins: dv (dvdec)
+URL: http://libdv.sourceforge.net/
+
+Package: Libpng
+Version: >= 1.2
+Plugins: png (pngenc, pngdec)
+URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
+
+Package: libraw1394
+Plugins: dv1394
+URL: http://www.linux1394.org/
+
+Package: libiec61883
+Plugins: dv1394
+URL: http://www.linux1394.org/
+
+Package: libshout
+Version: >= 2.0
+URL: http://www.icecast.org/
+
+Package: speex
+Version: >= 1.0.4 or >= 1.1.5
+Plugins: speex (speexenc, speexdec)
+URL: http://www.speex.org/
+
+Package: taglib
+Version: >= 1.4
+DebianPackage: libtag1-dev
+URL: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
+
+Package: zlib
+Plugins: id3demux
+URL: http://www.zlib.net/
+
+
+Optional (debian) packages:
+===========================
+
+gtk-doc-tools 1.6 -- needed to build documentation
+python-xml -- needed to build plugin documentation