Re: JahShaka

[Mike Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>]

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Subject: Re: JahShaka
From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
Cc: mike cchtml com
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.