On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 06:27 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 00:17 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > 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. > > Most apps/libraries have the container demuxer tightly coupled to the > codec engine. Apps are thus broken. > The only exception to that is gstreamer, so only > gstreamer-based apps are capable of playing such a file. xine-lib, mplayer, and many others split the demuxing from the decoding. I still don't see where this discussion is taking us. If a decoder is missing for the data in a Matroska (or Ogg) container, you should get a nice popup asking you to install the decoder through PackageKit. Feel free to file a bug upstream if Matroska files don't play with Theora video. Just as an FYI, those 2 files (one with Theora video, one with Vorbis audio) play just fine in F10: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/Matroska/theora.mkv http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/Matroska/mewmew/mewmew-vorbis-ssa.mkv Cheers -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
