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.

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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

Desktop Environment Support

Media-related libraries to support all desktops in our support matrix, which includes:

• GNOME (some packages in gnome-kit-sources)
• KDE (some packages in kde-kit-sources)
• Cinnamon (some packages in gnome-kit-sources)
• MATE
• LXQt
• XFCE
• Enlightenment

And additionally the following window managers which are not in our support matrix:

• Openbox
• Fluxbox

What Is Not (Yet) Considered 'Media'

This section documents things that are not yet officially supported in media-kit and Funtoo, along with guidance on how to handle them.

PipeWire

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 by default. 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 dependency on PipeWire in our default builds of Funtoo which we don't want.