Re: FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Or try playing
> http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/test-vectors/vorbis/lsp-test.ogg with
> something that uses ffmpeg (like mplayer): crackles and sputters. The
> ffmpeg Vorbis decoder doesn't implement the full spec, only the more
> commonly used parts.

FWIW, Kaffeine (which uses xine-lib) plays this just fine. xine-lib supports
Ogg codecs directly, with its own issues (Ogg codecs and the Ogg container
can only be used together), but it does use the standard libs.

        Kevin Kofler