Question: embedded libshout still required?

[EndlessEden]

is the bundled libshout still required? afaik upstream libshout supports aac/raw since 2004(raw)/2012(aac) (https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-libshout) - I could be misreading.

My concern is native integration would be tighter and allow better version control. When building against shared systemlibs, this reduces the risk of security and performance concerns. Ultimately it would take risks from external libraries out of your hands. as the source can only be tracked to a single tarball in this repository and maintenance (as well as security monitoring) currently stuck on you.. | So if im incorrect on any of these assumptions please explain why, and if possible please push or request these changes upstream.

[andimik]

I'm not a programmer, but - as far as I understood - libshout is only needed for the old ni2http. One of the contributors here added a ni2out tool instead.

Of course you can comment out the lines 11, 69ff in the Makefile.

So please have a look into the source code.