DVD (video) and Fedora

[Martin Sourada]

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 00:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Martin Sourada wrote:
> > No, they won't be. They're using whatever framework there is on mac and
> > they'll be using whatever framework is default on windows. It's no
> > different from video intended from download - you rely on the customer
> > to install the needed codecs himself.
> 
> And this in turn will draw webmasters to Flash (or rather fail to draw them
> away from it, the web is already infected with it all over the place),
> which has a known set of codecs. :-/
> 
> The whole point of having native video support in HTML is that you don't
> have to install stuff, so having some known-supported codec is essential.
> Therefore, IMHO it was a big mistake that the clause which made Ogg
> Theora/Vorbis support mandatory got removed from HTML 5, and the WebKit
> approach is not going to be reliable.
> 
> Using the native multimedia framework does make sense, but at that point the
> browser should be responsible for installing the codecs Xiph.org provides,
> not the user.
> 
Well your points seems to hit the nail on its head. As you said, it
would be actually way better to have a mandatory set (defined by w3c) of
supported codecs/formats (be it for example ogg, theora, vorbis and
flac) which each browser should support but please does not make it the
only codecs/formats supported. On *nix platform the above mentioned set
of codecs is usually available form the start and furthermore its
installation is usually pretty straightforward, on windows, and maybe
mac, it would probably require bundling the set of above mentioned
codecs within the browser installer.

>         Kevin Kofler
> 
Martin
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