OGG support [was Re: KDE RedHat project]

[Emily Brantley]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 19:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>
>>>   I'd argue,  however,  that "positive propaganda" is the right 
>>>strategy here too:  if RH (and much of the OS community) takes the 
>>>principled stand of providing a free media stack,  it ought to put a 
>>>little bit of energy into promoting free media formats -- for 
>>>instance,  it would be nice to see a web site promoting the Ogg Vorbis 
>>>streams that are out there,  just as there are sites promoting the SBR 
>>>heresy...
>>>
>>>http://www.tuner2.com/
>>>
>>
>>That does seem like a good idea to me. If you got other areas that we 
>>can improve the the promotion of free media formats,  do post to the 
>>fedora-marketing list.
> 
> 
> I'll tell you what else would be very useful here.
> 
> A site with simple, easy to follow instructions on how to get OGG
> formats playing on other platforms, and preferably in these platforms
> default players.
> 
> One of the biggest sticking points I've had with getting people to even
> try OGG formats is getting their platform (usually OS X) to be able to
> support this format.
> 
> Having a place where people could be pointed to that tells/shows them
> what to do and also has the links to the software that need (hopefully
> in small, easy to download bits) would make it a lot easier to get
> people to try (and use) vorbis.
> 
> As and example, I've tried to get my government in Australia to use OGG
> formats for parliamentary needs, but the sysadmin just tells me it's too
> hard to install on some platforms and that they will stick with
> proprietary formats (and no government should use these for information
> distribution) because people just have these installed on their systems.
> (Strangely, comments from me that the formats they support aren't even
> supported by the manufacturers on my system seem to fall on deaf ears).
> 
> Being able to say to these people, go to this page and follow the simple
> instructions and you'll be able to use OGG formats would make selling
> the idea of OGG much, much easier.
> 
> 
> Rodd

when somebody isn't able to play a video or audio i've ripped in ogg, i
usually point people to this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help

it could probably use some improvement (like screenshots and detailed
guides).

em.
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