Re: FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

(Removing the desktop and artwork lists, why is this being cross-posted to
those?)

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> It's another indicator that Fedora should discontinue shipping these
> non-free media focused infrastructures rather than continuing to patch
> the non-free stuff out.

Are you volunterring to fix Phonon's GStreamer backend? It has tons of bugs.
The xine-lib backend is the only reliable and recommended one.

> Some of the proprietary-codecs focused tools provide their own home
> grown implementations of the codecs (i.e. ffmpeg). These often do not
> implement the full spec, so its important to test their behaviour.

Huh? FFmpeg uses libvorbis and libtheora.

        Kevin Kofler