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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 05 February 2009 at 12:27, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 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.

That's wrong. If Theora+Vorbis-in-Matroska isn't working with some demuxer
then that demuxer should be fixed. Have you reported your problematic
files to upstream developers?

> 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.

Let's see...
FFmpeg: separate (libavformat and libavcodec)
GStreamer: separate
MPlayer: FFmpeg linked in statically (due to abuse of internal interfaces)
Xine: separate

Is there anything else? So I'd say the majority is decoupled.

Regards,
R.

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