Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 19:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>Hi >> >> >>> I'd argue, however, that "positive propaganda" is the right >>>strategy here too: if RH (and much of the OS community) takes the >>>principled stand of providing a free media stack, it ought to put a >>>little bit of energy into promoting free media formats -- for >>>instance, it would be nice to see a web site promoting the Ogg Vorbis >>>streams that are out there, just as there are sites promoting the SBR >>>heresy... >>> >>>http://www.tuner2.com/ >>> >> >>That does seem like a good idea to me. If you got other areas that we >>can improve the the promotion of free media formats, do post to the >>fedora-marketing list. > > > I'll tell you what else would be very useful here. > > A site with simple, easy to follow instructions on how to get OGG > formats playing on other platforms, and preferably in these platforms > default players. > > One of the biggest sticking points I've had with getting people to even > try OGG formats is getting their platform (usually OS X) to be able to > support this format. > > Having a place where people could be pointed to that tells/shows them > what to do and also has the links to the software that need (hopefully > in small, easy to download bits) would make it a lot easier to get > people to try (and use) vorbis. > > As and example, I've tried to get my government in Australia to use OGG > formats for parliamentary needs, but the sysadmin just tells me it's too > hard to install on some platforms and that they will stick with > proprietary formats (and no government should use these for information > distribution) because people just have these installed on their systems. > (Strangely, comments from me that the formats they support aren't even > supported by the manufacturers on my system seem to fall on deaf ears). > > Being able to say to these people, go to this page and follow the simple > instructions and you'll be able to use OGG formats would make selling > the idea of OGG much, much easier. > > > Rodd when somebody isn't able to play a video or audio i've ripped in ogg, i usually point people to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help it could probably use some improvement (like screenshots and detailed guides). em.
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