[Buildroot] [PATCH 07/36] package/celt051: new package

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On Friday 17 August 2012 15:50:47 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:27:29 +0200,
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> a écrit :
> 
> > > Just curious, for what reason an audio codec is needed as a dependency
> > > of a virtual machine thing? How does it fit in the stack?
> > 
> > celt-0.51 is a hard-depdency for Spice to encode the audio.
> > It's select-ed by BR2_PACKAGE_SPICE in a later patch.
> > 
> > Note that I added all new packages in a row, rather than add them just
> > prior to the requiring qemu feature. Should I re-order the series to make
> > the depedencies clearer?
> 
> No, I understood perfectly that celt was a dependency of spice. My
> question was not Buildroot-specific: I was trying to understand
> what Qemu/Spice had to do with an audio encoder.

Spice is a VNC-like solution, but specificaly designed for use by virtual
machine hypervisors. It can transport video and audio alike, and uses celt
to encode/decode the audio for sending over-the-wire.

I don't know why they choose celt instead of ogg or anything else,
except maybe that celt is developped to be really patent-unencumbered.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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