> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Wong [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tue, May 27, 2003 4:42 PM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Extra programs for Red Hat > > > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Igor Nestoroviæ wrote : > > > > > I am talking about newbies, from the Windows world, who > used to have > > > programs for playing audio and video files INCLUDED in the OS. > > > > Huh!? Don't tell me you can play DivX, ogg, RealAudio on Windows > > _without_ downloading any additional software? I haven't > actually used a > > Windows based computer since the Windows 98, and at that > time it wasn't > > possible to play _anything_ with the base OS, not even > uncompress .zip > > files... people have told me it has since changed, but when > I see people > > complaining about the lack of "out-of-the-box" features for > a GNU/Linux > > distribution _compared_ to Windows, I find that almost insane. > > The "real world" operates in a separate reality from the > anything-but-Microsoft world. In that strange world, people are more > interested in playing video and audio than in the alphabet > soup that this > world babbles in. DivX, OGG, MP3, WMA, MP4 ... who cares? All > a Windows > user cares is that he can play video and audio -- streaming > or file -- out > of the box. He does not care that he is using WMA, WMF or MP3 > as opposed > to DivX and OGG. It just works most of the time, in a way > that is only a > dream in Red Hat. And that's what matters. Actually, doing all this on RedHat linux is much easier (thanks to Mattias and fedora maintainers) then on windows. On windows you have to download and install quicktime, divx, real player and lots of other software and also buy a DVD player to be able to watch all the common audio and video content. On RHL it's all available from a single repository and takes just a few minutes to install. It happened to me many times that I had to parse strange MS media player errors and search the internet to find out what other codec I miss, while mplayer and xine never failed for me. Pavel. > > Chris > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
