On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Ben Boeckel <MathStuf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The official recommendation is to only watch Ogg Theora content... >> Unfortunately, there's nothing else Fedora can officially recommend. >> >> See also: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#DVD_Playback >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/DVD >> >> Kevin Kofler >> > > There are also the matroska codecs. Matroska is a container, like ".Ogg", ".mov", or ".avi". It isn't a codec. (And I'm not aware of any codecs under the Matroska moniker) Very often Xvid (mpeg 4 part 2) or H264 (mpeg 4 part 10) is placed in Matroska for Video. These codecs are not acceptable for Fedora. (Vorbis is fairly common for audio in these files; though MP3 and AAC are used too). You could put Theora (+Vorbis) in MKV, in theory, and I think people have done it before, but I know it doesn't work right in many (most? virtually all?) mkv supporting apps. I'd say that would be something worth fixing, since there are a lot of complex features in MKV that no one has done for Ogg (like menus) except that I could still never recommend mkv files to people, since free codecs in MKV pretty much only theoretically possible (like non-free codecs in Ogg are theoretically possible, but not something you're likely to find). For Fedora we wouldn't want to recommend MKV for users simply because there is a 99.9999% chance of any random mkv file not working for them. As far as Dirac goes, it's fine stuff too, but doesn't immediately solve any of the concerns raised with what is currently available. Fortunately, it looks like the unencumbered media world is all playing nice: Dirac in Ogg works in Fedora today. So in terms of recommendation you can just direct users to "ogg" files and whatever they get will JustWork™ on free software including, soon, Firefox. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
