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

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 00:17 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> You could put Theora (+Vorbis) in MKV, in theory, and I think people
> have done it before, but I know it doesn't work right in many (most?
> virtually all?) mkv supporting apps.   I'd say that would be something
> worth fixing, since there are a lot of complex features in MKV that no
> one has done for Ogg (like menus) except that I could still never
> recommend mkv files to people, since free codecs in MKV pretty much
> only theoretically possible (like non-free codecs in Ogg are
> theoretically possible, but not something you're likely to find).  For
> Fedora we wouldn't want to recommend MKV for users simply because
> there is a 99.9999% chance of any random mkv file not working for
> them.

Most apps/libraries have the container demuxer tightly coupled to the
codec engine. The only exception to that is gstreamer, so only
gstreamer-based apps are capable of playing such a file.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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