Is zlib necessary?
Added by glazed donut almost 12 years ago
Hi all
I am compiling tvheadend on my Synology NAS. And I can't seem to add zlib support.
Is that a problem? What am I not getting when zlib is disabled?
Regards,
tolborg
Replies (1)
RE: Is zlib necessary? - Added by Adam Sutton almost 12 years ago
It's not necessary, you can disable it.
It is used for compression of web content (on the fly) when serving static pages. It's also used in the file bundling builds where the bundled resources may in fact be compressed in the bundle and some will need decompressing before they can be used. But if you disable zlib the bundle will simply not be compressed.
Adam