From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Multimedia Libs Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:10:08 +0000 Message-ID: <564396BC-2941-49FE-AA2A-CA4ED0B72141@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5747609684068959799==" List-Id: --===============5747609684068959799== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, > On 26 Mar 2020, at 07:24, Matthias Fischer = wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > On 25.03.2020 22:11, Stephan Mending wrote: >> I was wondering why IPFire needs codecs at all? >=20 > I'm wondering, too... ;-) There are a couple of reasons: The image libraries are used to generate graphs. There are multiple ways do e= ncode 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. >=20 > As I see it, the main reasons are the ability to do it by Pakfire and - > perhaps - historical reasons(!?). >=20 > The first things I noticed when I started with IPFire (~2011), were the > multimedia addons (see: https://wiki.ipfire.org/addons). >=20 > 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*!? >=20 > 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. >=20 > If it were up to me, these addons could be removed completely. >=20 > 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 >=20 > Jm2C! >=20 > Best, > Matthias --===============5747609684068959799==--