12-25-2006, 05:34 AM
Audio Codecs
- aac, flac, mp3, oggvorbis
Common Programs
- aim, icq, msn, yahoo (Instant Messengers)
- arts, kde (KDE)
- dts, dvb, httpd, stream, vlm (VLC)
- firefox, mozilla, ssl (Browsers)
- gimp, gimpprint (Gimp)
Video Codecs
- asf, avi, live, mjpeg, mpeg, quicktime, real, realmedia, theora, win32codecs, wmp, vcd, x264, xvid
MythTV & Video/Audio encoding/decoding
- apache2, mysql, mythtv (MythTV)
- ffmpeg, encode, transcode (A/V)
Graphics
- gif, jpeg, pdf, png
Hardware Specific
- css*, dvd, dvdr, dvdread, (Optical Drives)
- ifp, mtp, ipod, njb (MP3 players | iRiver, Various, iPod, Creative)
- ivtv, lirc (Various TV Tuners and Remote Controls)
- v4l, v4l2 (Video4Linux ... webcams, TV tuners, various)
- lm_sensors** (Various hardware sensors (temperature, etc) )
- 3dnow, 3dnowext, sse, sse2, mmx, mmxext (CPU optimizations... run 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to see if your CPU supports each)
- nvidia, xvmc (nVidia graphics cards)
- usb (Shame on you if you have a PC too old to have USB ports...)
- opengl (3D Acceleration ... requires supported hardware)
- wifi (Got wireless?)
* css is for breaking DVD encryption to play DVDs, technically illegal in U.S.A. under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
** DO NOT RUN THIS ON A THINKPAD WITHOUT CHECKING THE DOCUMENTATION. The process of probing for sensors can ***RUIN*** some Thinkpad models.
Must Have Flags (standard Linux utilities, etc)
- alsa (Sound Support)
- bitmap-fonts, freetype, truetype, truetype-fonts (Fonts)
- bzip2 bzlib, rar (Archival Tools)
- clamav, libclamav (Anti-virus)
- cups (Printing)
- dbus, hal (Hardware / Plug-n-Play support / various)
- gstreamer (Various AV uses)
- gtk, gtk2 (GTK GUI support, basis of Gnome)
- qt3, qt4 (QT GUI support, basis of KDE)
- java, nsplugin (Java and Java browser plugin)
- ncurses, readline (Console tools)
- userlocales (Did you follow the Gentoo handbook? This should look familiar if so...)
- X, xv (You do want a GUI of some kind, right? / xvideo playback)
- pam (Login security/management)
- unicode, xml (just include it)
- mplayer (audio/video swiss army knife... also required for mplayerplug-in .. the only way to watch most videos in a browser)
Misc
- directfb (FrameBuffer ... graphical bg on console ... graphical bootsplash ... etc)
- aac, flac, mp3, oggvorbis
Common Programs
- aim, icq, msn, yahoo (Instant Messengers)
- arts, kde (KDE)
- dts, dvb, httpd, stream, vlm (VLC)
- firefox, mozilla, ssl (Browsers)
- gimp, gimpprint (Gimp)
Video Codecs
- asf, avi, live, mjpeg, mpeg, quicktime, real, realmedia, theora, win32codecs, wmp, vcd, x264, xvid
MythTV & Video/Audio encoding/decoding
- apache2, mysql, mythtv (MythTV)
- ffmpeg, encode, transcode (A/V)
Graphics
- gif, jpeg, pdf, png
Hardware Specific
- css*, dvd, dvdr, dvdread, (Optical Drives)
- ifp, mtp, ipod, njb (MP3 players | iRiver, Various, iPod, Creative)
- ivtv, lirc (Various TV Tuners and Remote Controls)
- v4l, v4l2 (Video4Linux ... webcams, TV tuners, various)
- lm_sensors** (Various hardware sensors (temperature, etc) )
- 3dnow, 3dnowext, sse, sse2, mmx, mmxext (CPU optimizations... run 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to see if your CPU supports each)
- nvidia, xvmc (nVidia graphics cards)
- usb (Shame on you if you have a PC too old to have USB ports...)
- opengl (3D Acceleration ... requires supported hardware)
- wifi (Got wireless?)
* css is for breaking DVD encryption to play DVDs, technically illegal in U.S.A. under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
** DO NOT RUN THIS ON A THINKPAD WITHOUT CHECKING THE DOCUMENTATION. The process of probing for sensors can ***RUIN*** some Thinkpad models.
Must Have Flags (standard Linux utilities, etc)
- alsa (Sound Support)
- bitmap-fonts, freetype, truetype, truetype-fonts (Fonts)
- bzip2 bzlib, rar (Archival Tools)
- clamav, libclamav (Anti-virus)
- cups (Printing)
- dbus, hal (Hardware / Plug-n-Play support / various)
- gstreamer (Various AV uses)
- gtk, gtk2 (GTK GUI support, basis of Gnome)
- qt3, qt4 (QT GUI support, basis of KDE)
- java, nsplugin (Java and Java browser plugin)
- ncurses, readline (Console tools)
- userlocales (Did you follow the Gentoo handbook? This should look familiar if so...)
- X, xv (You do want a GUI of some kind, right? / xvideo playback)
- pam (Login security/management)
- unicode, xml (just include it)
- mplayer (audio/video swiss army knife... also required for mplayerplug-in .. the only way to watch most videos in a browser)
Misc
- directfb (FrameBuffer ... graphical bg on console ... graphical bootsplash ... etc)