FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Feb 9 03:08:29 UTC 2009
(Removing the desktop and artwork lists, why is this being cross-posted to
those?)
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> It's another indicator that Fedora should discontinue shipping these
> non-free media focused infrastructures rather than continuing to patch
> the non-free stuff out.
Are you volunterring to fix Phonon's GStreamer backend? It has tons of bugs.
The xine-lib backend is the only reliable and recommended one.
> Some of the proprietary-codecs focused tools provide their own home
> grown implementations of the codecs (i.e. ffmpeg). These often do not
> implement the full spec, so its important to test their behaviour.
Huh? FFmpeg uses libvorbis and libtheora.
Kevin Kofler
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