On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 09:44 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 23:43 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for cross-posting but I wanted all interested parties to not miss > > this email ;-) > > > > There has been some media related discussion in the -devel list and one > > of the points I have taken form it is that we should promote FLOSS > > multimedia and don't blame others for doing it (even if it's done in a > > not ideal way)... Now, the problem is that the actual support of these > > in our system is crappy. Out of the combinations of two FLOSS containers > > (matroska and ogg) and two FLOSS video codecs (dirac and theora) I know > > only one (ogg + theora) actually works in xine-lib (used by KDE4) which > > is pathetic. > > > > So I created a wiki page (not sure what name space to use, so I put it > > under my user page for starters) [1] which tracks the situation. I don't > > have much time lately due to university duties, so I put there only > > things I know of and didn't researched further. So if you know of any > > FLOSS container, video or audio codec, feel free to add it there. Also > > feel free to reference upstream bugs about the mentioned issues. The > > videos used for reference testing are available at my fedora people page > > [2]. > > I think you're missing the biggest part of the problem, filing bugs. I've already filled bug in xine-lib's bugzilla about matroska+theora support [1], so long ago that I even forgot I did so... I'm going to try the rest in rawhide first (according to dirac compatibility matrix [2] some of these should be fixed by now). > Cheers > Martin References: [1] http://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159 [2] http://diracvideo.org/wiki/index.php/Dirac_Compatibility_Matrix
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