On Sunday, 08 February 2009 at 23:43, 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]. Big thanks for doing this and providing samples. How did you create them? I'm filing bug reports for FFmpeg problems as I write this. I hope they will get resolved in a timely manner. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
