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