Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:50 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I know that already. And if I was a "newbie" i probably wouldn't
> > even know how to find this mailing list.
> >
> > My point is how would you answer to this question to your
> > wife/girlfriend or brother/sister or even mother/father? That is the
> > base or my question! And there is no answer that is good enough
> > because there should be a CLEAR distinction in extension for ogg video
> > and audio files IMHO.
> 
> The age of the separate audio and video media player is largely
> passed. So they just double-click on it and don't worry about
> extensions.
> 
> As Rahul mentioned, newbs don't care about extensions. In fact, if
> they have been running Windows, they have been conditioned to not know
> that extensions even *exist* since Windows hides them by default (one
> of my big pet peeves) and finding the dialog to enable them is not
> newbie friendly.
> 
> I know where you are coming from but I don't think that this will be
> traumatizing for newbs and may be somewhat simplifying since they just
> have to know that it is media ... not audio media or video media and
> have to find the right player.

Mplayer does that nicely, regardless of the extension. I think quite of
few of us are showing DOS roots here. If all I need to do is click and
it works, that's a step up, IMHO. As Rahul mentioned, the desktop icon
will reveal what the file is, regardless of extension. Old DOS stuff,
which was critically dependent on extensions to make anything work. plus
the component between the chair and computer got conditioned that way. 
Wife/girlfriend and brother/sister are thankfully not carrying the old
baggage. Thankfully we are past that. Ric

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