On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This has zero advantages besides good developer feeling that "My system > has one less daemon..." Surely it's clear that having an unnecessary daemon is introducing another point of failure? Reducing complexity is not just its own reward in a 'Developer Feel Good' way. If decoding can *only* be sanely handled in user-space, that's one thing. If it can be handled in kernel, then that would be better. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html