On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 19:30:12 +0100, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the meantime we have to be practical, if Mozilla+Google have failed to push for VP8 and accepted that for now H264 is the way to go, I am afraid that the reality is that by making it hard to get H264 decoding in Fedora for users the only thing we are going to achieve is scaring users away and diminishing the quality perception of Fedora. That is a net loss for free software.
Being practical in the short term can have long term consequences, working against getting what we want ever.
A media codec should not be a system wide component (I'd go as far as saying it should not be user-session wide, but application bundled).
codecs process data provided provided by untrusted sources, for security reasons you don't want these bundled with apps.
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