What next?

[Paul A. Houle]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:24:26 -0500, W. Michael Petullo <mike at flyn.org>  
wrote:

>
> - Bugzilla #158657 Build totem's Mozilla plugin
> - Bugzilla #127537 Free software applet viewer plugin
> - Free software flash viewer?
>

	I hate to say it,  but intellectual property restrictions make the  
multimedia software shipped with Fedora a joke,  which I end up scrapping  
and replacing with stuff that plays media I get off the street.

	Ogg is great,  for instance,  and I rip CDs with ogg,  but if I want to  
listen to 99% of the audio streams out there,  I need mp3,  and that's a  
matter of trashing the multimedia stuff that comes with Fedora and  
replacing it.  My flash mp3 player doesn't play ogg,  and I'd rather  
install some encoder software of questionably status than shell out  
another $200 for one that does.

	I know you can't really do anything about it,  but this underlying  
problem makes improvements to multimedia players on Fedora like  
rearraigning the deck chairs on the titanic.