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