Re: Multimedia Libs

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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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