Hey, Today is my first day in Fedora 8 (like probably a lot of people) and when i want to play a movie i get codec buddy which is absolutely fine! But now the misleading part comes. I live in Europe. for me it's not illegal to install the "gstreamer-bad-plugins" or just packages that get me mpeg/xvid/divx/aac/any_codec support and yet codec buddy gives me only payed options. I didn't start using fedora a few years ago to start paying for codecs! Now my idea to get this better is to make codec buddy location specific. When you install fedora you select the country where you live. If codec buddy uses that information than it can point me to the right direction where i can get my codecs for free. I ujnderstand that Fedora can't include those codecs in there own repositories but wouldn't it be possible to make a community driven (codec) repository that contains all the packages that are not allowed in the USA but are in EU (probably everywhere EXCEPT the USA). Fedora at least has to notify the users that paying isn't needed if you don't live in the USA!! Redhat can just make a "eu base" just for this..?? it doesn't need to cost redhat much (one dedicated server in the EU somewhere under another name not connected to RedHat).. perhaps even free if they can join up with for example NLUUG (and if nluug is willing of course) cause this codec stuff is getting really annoying to get working every time i install fedora.. Otherwise if this isn't a good idea in the eyes of the redhat people than i would like to start the "Codec Group" (just made that up) to make distribution packages of all the codecs for all the linux based operating systems. i'm in but not all by myself and only of the idea above (or something to solve the issue) is not approved. i hope that at least 2 other people could join me.. and someone with multiple package systems (rpm and apt) would be a gread help. Let me know what you thing, Mark. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
