FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 18:08 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > Thats not correct. For example, --subtitles argument to ffmpeg2theora
> > takes a .SRT file and multiplexes it as Ogg/Kate.
> > (http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggKate)
> > 
> > (Thats a case where playback support is lacking in many tools— but it
> > exists, is well specified, and isn't some kludge)
> 
> Apparently even your favorite GStreamer hasn't merged support for it yet...
> 
> Looks like getting support for Ogg/Kate into upstream GStreamer and xine-lib
> should really be a priority.

The problem was that the Kate bitstream was not frozen, so adding
support for it could have broken without warning. See:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525743