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Subject: Re: JahShaka
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: mike@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 05/12/2008 08:21 AM
Casey Dahlin wrote:
Why would it have to be GStreamer? Wouldn't anything
un-patent-encumbered do? (Not that this isn't un-patent-encumbered,
but in the general case).
It doesn't have to be gstreamer. We have both gstreamer and xine (the
free parts) in Fedora but gstreamer does make it easy to add support
back for the other codecs that we don't include.
Rahul
That's the point I was trying to make.
Most people who would want to use a video editor for "realistic work"
wouldn't find much value in an Ogg-only output format. They'd expect to
be able to output in MPEG-2, MPEG-4, or h.264 to display on their
televisions and/or share with customers or friends through the Internet.
Sure, you could output into a non-patent encumbered format and then
re-encode the video, but that's a two step process. Not very user
friendly; plus if it is a lossy codec it's a degrading process.
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