Re: Multimedia Libs

[Stephan Mending <list@md5collisions.eu>]

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Thanks for clearence !

On 26/03/2020 10:10, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 26 Mar 2020, at 07:24, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 25.03.2020 22:11, Stephan Mending wrote:
>>> I was wondering why IPFire needs codecs at all?
>> I'm wondering, too... ;-)
> There are a couple of reasons:
>
> The image libraries are used to generate graphs. There are multiple ways do encode those and there are plenty of interdependencies to it.
>
> The audio libraries are being used for libvirt, tshark to capture and decode audio and video, too.
>
> There are a couple of media streaming add-ons which also can re-encode things. It is of course up to everyone to decide if they want/need to use it.
>
>>> I bet there's a good reason. I just isn't clear to me.
>> As I see it, the main reasons are the ability to do it by Pakfire and -
>> perhaps - historical reasons(!?).
>>
>> The first things I noticed when I started with IPFire (~2011), were the
>> multimedia addons (see: https://wiki.ipfire.org/addons).
>>
>> Who in god's name *needs* (and *wants*) "jukebox features", a "server
>> for streaming MP3- and OGG-files" or "video recording" - plus more - on
>> a *firewall*!?
>>
>> I saw this and thought: "Ok then, this is a *bit* different from IPCop,
>> but what the heck. After all, you're not forced to install this cr** -
>> its in your own responsibility.
>>
>> If it were up to me, these addons could be removed completely.
>>
>> Let the discussion begin... ;-)
> I do not really want to re-open this one again. We dealt with that on repeat about 10 years ago.
>
> They are add-ons. There are plenty of others where I personally disagree with and yet they are in the distribution. People have different needs.
>
> -Michael
>
>> Jm2C!
>>
>> Best,
>> Matthias