From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Fischer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Multimedia Libs Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:30:33 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <564396BC-2941-49FE-AA2A-CA4ED0B72141@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4785446820055194478==" List-Id: --===============4785446820055194478== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On 26.03.2020 10:10, Michael Tremer wrote: > Hi, >=20 >> On 26 Mar 2020, at 07:24, Matthias Fischer = wrote: >>=20 >> ... >> I'm wondering, too... ;-) >=20 > There are a couple of reasons: >=20 > The image libraries are used to generate graphs. There are multiple ways do= encode those and there are plenty of interdependencies to it. Image libraries. Ok. I see the point. Can be useful. > The audio libraries are being used for libvirt, tshark to capture and decod= e audio and video, too. >=20 > There are a couple of media streaming add-ons which also can re-encode thin= gs. It is of course up to everyone to decide if they want/need to use it. ACK. >>... >>=20 >> Let the discussion begin... ;-) >=20 > I do not really want to re-open this one again. We dealt with that on repea= t about 10 years ago. I did not know that this had been discussed before and no, I don't want to start all over again... > They are add-ons. There are plenty of others where I personally disagree wi= th and yet they are in the distribution. People have different needs. Yes, they have. From my point that's ok then. Best, Matthias --===============4785446820055194478==--