Karsten Wade wrote:
I'm punting this over to the marketing side. The consensus on #fedora-
docs is this:
a) Fedora has not done a very good job of loudly advertising why we
don't distribute certain codecs, although we do spend a lot of time
addressing the topic in other ways.
b) The complaint about multimedia is in every poorly researched review.
c) This is the latest stick to beat Fedora with.
d) An official rebuttal/comment on the situation might help.
Any ideas on this?
I believe the best thing to do is what the original poster suggested in
Bugzilla:
"It would also be good (although I realise that this is the wrong place
for that) if stubs were installed for the missing components which
explain the situation. This has been done for xmms, but I think that's
the only place. The other affected programs just display very generic
and uninformative error messages, or they are just mysteriously missing."
I expect if such a stub is made as a gstreamer plugin, the majority of
multimedia apps in Fedora will be covered.
If the situation is clarified at the application level then I find
enough for release notes to mention it in a secondary, non-prominent place.
BTW, as this is a marketing list, when we will have and advertise some
mind-blowing multimedia applications based on free codecs to fill this void?
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