RH10 multimedia support

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 23:02:44 UTC 2003


> Look, this is just a post from a regular user.  And I'm just
> broadcasting some criticisms and some hopes that Red Hat reverses course
> on their apparent abandonment of multimedia support.

Its not been a case of abandoning multimedia 

> I realize that "multimedia" is one of those areas that is very bound up
> in legal restrictions.  But even so, Red Hat shouldn't abandon it's
> users to a source-compiled mplayer, an xmms that looks like a
> front-piece from a 1970's Kenwood receiver, or plugins that should more
> aptly be called "hackins".

gstreamer has a pretty good plugin framework. Hopefully third parties will
fill the holes either freely for those countries that can be, or by
offering payware products for the others.





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