Rahul Sundaram escribió:
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
Or is Fedora enabling RPMFusion by default and
installing these encoders in an "as needed" basis when a user first
tries to sync his/her iPod/Nomad/iriver/Sony/etc DAP?
Fedora cannot do that.
Rahul
Excaclty! And that is my whole point! Why lose time discussing this that
simply cannot be done in Fedora due to the number of legal blackholes it
would imply. There are a few DAP brands that do allow for free formats
to be played back on them (iriver, Creative Nomad, Cowon iAuduio, etc),
they can mostly play .ogg/.flac (beside the array of proprietary formats
.mp3,.wma,.m4a,.aac, etc), but the main problem with these is the small
storage capacity compared to the traditional iPod, and while pretty much
all of these do support video, the video format they mostly support is
also encumbered (h264 simple profile and MPEG-4 simple profile) I wish
Theora will mature to the point that it would be a viable alternative
for these formats and most likely would be picked up by some companies
as well (just like .ogg Vorbis & FLAC).
I, however, wonder what will the status on this be when in 2010 the
patents on MP3 (dunno which ones) supposedly expire. But that's still a
whole 13+ months away (the whole life-cycle of Fedora 10!).
Speaking about Video, maybe an area (in Multimedia) that would be worth
investing development and time testing is just video-encoding and
editing using free formats (theora). Many times in the past I tried to
transcode some of the videos I own (whether it be DVD or downloaded
free-videos) to theora. Once I wanted to conduct a quality comparison
between theora, MPEG-4 and h264, but I could never find a good and
reliable theora encoder. I do believe that ffmpeg (another restricted
package) does support transcoding to theora, but is there a stand-alone
theora encoder?
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