Funtoo:Media

   Summary

This is the Funtoo media project, which manages the contents of media-kit as well as all media-related mix-ins.

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   People

Leads

• drobbins
• seemant

Welcome to the Funtoo Media project! This project is focused on curating various types of media support in Funtoo. By 'media', we are generally referring to all the media-related packages in media-kit (both 1.4-release and next) as well as potentially some packages that should be in media-kit, plus the media-related multi-profiles.

Goals

The goal of the Funtoo Media project is to provide essential functionality related to media support in Funtoo Linux, and to curate/maintain the media packages.

What Is Considered 'Media'

Media packages can include:

Audio

• audio frameworks, libraries and APIs
• audio formats and codec support
• 'essential' audio playback applications

Video

• AV frameworks, libraries and APIs including gstreamer
• video formats and codec support
• 'essential' video playback applications

Graphics

• Bitmap/vector graphics format frameworks, libraries and APIs
• Photo-related support libraries (RAW, EXIF)
• 'essential' graphics applications such as Imagemagick

Hardware

• Libraries related to accessing commercial media such as CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc
• Media-oriented libraries and protocols for such functionality (such as Firewire)

Typography

• Core font libraries
• Core font selection in Funtoo