F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Antonio Olivares]

> > Here like I have mentioned in the same thread.  A
> Fedora spin without (all the free stuff(non patent
> encumbered ) that is provided by default)
> would make sense and would free Fedora/Red Hat from
> litigation and would 
> make it easier to include the stuff that will make media
> players play
> everything under the sun and will not get in the way when
> buiding these 
> apps.
> 
> It won't make sense for Fedora to not include support
> for the non-patent 
> encumbered codecs since one of the primary objectives of
> Fedora is to 
> enable and support free and open source software. Besides
> multimedia 
> frameworks like gstreamer is a dependency of many many apps
> and 
> excluding them all is not feasible. Normally users who want
> additional 
> components would just grab those from a third party repo.
> If you are 
> compiling from source, that's a smaller nice of users
> and you are very 
> well equipped to remove whatever you don't want. Again,
> if you disagree 
> and think your goal will help end users, feel free to build
> a Fedora 
> spin exactly the way you want. The tools that we used to
> build Fedora 
> are all available as part of Fedora.
> > 
> > It is not a bad thing Rahul. I have mplayer and
> gecko-media player built from source and I am doing fine.  I
> am not complaining.  
> It would make sense to not have to ship crippled players
> *unless the 
> users want those only**
> 
> Gstreamer has a plugin model and we don't include some
> of the plugins. 
> This process doesn't require actively crippling
> anything.
Jeff has mentioned the plugin system if it can be built from source, I will take a look into it.  Otherwise, I guess using livna or freshrpms is the answer besides working with mock and learning more about the process.  I will see what I can do.

Thanks,

Antonio 
> 
> Rahul