Re: When can we see the inclusion of Video Players for RedhatFedora?

[Martin Stricker <shugal gmx de>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:40:41PM -0700, Joel Juliano wrote:
> > What have caused Redhat not to include Video Players
> > for it's distribution?, I havent' seen Redhat
> 
> The problem in the USA is patents. That limits most of the video
> codecs available today. In theory we could distribute apps based
> on Theora and QV30 but neither has anything useful to ship.

So what about moving to a place with more reasonable laws? This is
becomming annoying - many other distros have video players on board.

Best regards,
Martin
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