On Sun, 24 May 2015 21:21:07 +0200
Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 24/05/15 17:17, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
> > On 24 May 2015 at 15:20, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> Should work on top of the hap set.
> >>
> >> I'll try to get a not-completely-horrible encoder later.
> > 
> > What does this snappy decoder actually do? It's not really clear.
> > 
> 
> Hap uses snappy, so Vittorio added the dependency on it, then Tom asked
> if snappy support could be automagic.
> 
> Automagic is quite bad for distributions so I implemented snappy and
> used it for the Hap decoder/demuxer.

This is really the most questionable justification for NIH I've ever
heard.

(And the funny part is that distributions are not the main users of
libavcodec.)
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