On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:25:20 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The general purpose of codec project [2] is to maintain core libraries > for various multimedia format encoder/decoder libraries. It's like > gfx+sound+video except only for core packages and not every possible > single viewer, player, editor, frontend... I believe that this specific > focus make more sense than the wider projects, i.e. it is more likely > than N people will actually co-maintain libraries used by many tools vs > N people co-maintain 20 alternative sound players (when they are > unlikely to use more than one at a time). Somehow I get the impression that "codec" as a scope is still too general. For instance, people well acquainted with audio codecs aren't necessarily well acquainted with video codecs, or image codecs. A package that only does audio-playback for instance, won't be of interest to somebody who predominantly cares about video playback. I'm not entirely against it as a concept as-is, I just suspect it will reiterate the previous problem.
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