FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora

[Kevin Kofler]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Or try playing
> http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/test-vectors/vorbis/lsp-test.ogg with
> something that uses ffmpeg (like mplayer): crackles and sputters. The
> ffmpeg Vorbis decoder doesn't implement the full spec, only the more
> commonly used parts.

Indeed, MPlayer uses the crap decoder by default. (-ac vorbis "fixes" it.) I
guess we should get ffvorbis disabled in the RPM Fusion FFmpeg package, to
force the vorbis decoder using the standard libs being used.

> FFmpeg even ships its own totally broken Vorbis encoder that delivers
> miserable quality even at high bitrates, which it uses if you ask for
> "vorbis". :(   It's really a mess.

Likewise.

        Kevin Kofler