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

Paul Osunero esiex3 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 04:04:42 UTC 2007


You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat hasn't tried to pay royalty for
media codecs.  I'm pretty sure they have enough money for it...

Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with
Linux/GNU software?

On 4/27/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ric Moore wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Feel better?
> >>>>> Hurray! I for one will be glad to see the back of it.
> >>>> How about Noatun?? Can that one be sent to the Bad Place?
> >>> Yep, ditto for noatun.  :)
> >> I hope xmms doesn't fit in the same fate as those two.
> >
> > XMMS rocks, I'd say without hesitation to keep that one! Ric
>
> Maybe, except that it lacks mp3 capability in the FCx versions.
>
> By the way, there is nothing illegal, immoral, or even fattening about
> the nvidia module RPM's maintained at http://rpm.livna.org/.  Everyone
> should know about them.  And if you happen to find some other things
> there that fedora doesn't include after you've added the repository to
> yum, you didn't hear about that from me.
>
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