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

We're currently working on stabilizing a 'beard trimmed' media-kit that is now part of next-release, and figuring out what to do with 'extra' media ebuilds that we may not want to have in the core media-kit. We also need to add guidance on what media frameworks are officially supported in Funtoo, and which aren't.

Media-kit includes support for popular audio frameworks, libraries, APIs, formats and codecs, as well as some 'essential' audio playback applications.

Media-kit includes core AV frameworks including gstreamer, libraries, video formats/codecs and APIs, as well as 'essential' video playback applications.

Media-kit includes common bitmap/vector graphics format frameworks, libraries and APIs, photo-related support libraries (RAW, EXIF), and 'essential' graphics applications such as Imagemagick.

Media-kit includes libraries related to accessing physical music, video and game media such as CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, as well as media-oriented libraries and protocols related to such functionality, including Firewire.

Media-kit includes core font libraries as well as the core font selection in Funtoo.

Media-kit may include media-related packages to support all desktops in our Support Matrix: GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQt, XFCE, Enlightenment, as well as additional window managers OpenBox and FluxBox.

PipeWire (aka media-video/pipewire, also see PipeWire on Gentoo Wiki) is not yet officially supported in Gentoo or Funtoo. There are several ebuilds that optionally depend on PipeWire. This is OK. If your ebuild can use PipeWire, it should conditionally depend on it via a USE variable, and this functionality should default to off via Funtoo USE settings. Also of note is that the various things that depend on PipeWire in Funtoo/Gentoo sometimes have different USE variables, generally focused on the name of the feature enabled, rather than a USE variable of pipewire. See FL-9407 for more information on PipeWire in Funtoo. We are open to a project to officially add PipeWire support to Funtoo, but this should be an organized effort rather than just having PipeWire 'silently depended upon' with new incoming PRs. This would create unnecessary untracked dependency on PipeWire in our default builds of Funtoo which we don't want.