DVD (video) and Fedora (was: FEL's commitment lineup)

King InuYasha ngompa13 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 23:56:01 UTC 2009


Apparently, Fedora DOES expect that... Or somehow magically play DVDs in Ogg
formats.
I have two things against Ogg formats:
1) Not well used outside purist communities
2) Theora has horrible quality compared to other video codecs.

I do though, like Ogg Vorbis and use it regularly.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Matthew Woehlke <
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> That wiki page is hardly "what Fedora is about" and in fact I believe it
>> is
>> counterproductive. We should instead point people to Gnash and/or Swfdec.
>>
>
> Indeed. +1 for gnash ;-).
>
>  Or just not recommend consuming Flash content at all, just like we do for
>> DVDs and MP3s.
>>
>
> Just what are you supposed to use instead of DVD's? Do you really expect
> all Fedora users (in the U.S. anyway) to boycott watching movies on their
> computers?
>
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