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 08:24:27 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <039545aa-a34e-1334-95a4-73ed7b3974d3@md5collisions.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7485220944194199078==" List-Id: --===============7485220944194199078== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On 25.03.2020 22:11, Stephan Mending wrote: > I was wondering why IPFire needs codecs at all? I'm wondering, too... ;-) > 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... ;-) Jm2C! Best, Matthias --===============7485220944194199078==--