DVD (video) and Fedora

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Feb 7 09:04:35 UTC 2009


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Friday, 06 February 2009 at 00:39, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>> That's because the Ogg container was originally supposed to be used only
>>> for Vorbis audio. It has since evolved into a mess. It should just be
>>> forgotten and only pointed to as a bad example.
>> But this means we need to get xine-lib fixed. I think both Theora and/or
>> Vorbis in MKV and Dirac in Ogg may get more common. There's not even a way
>> supported by xine-lib to use Dirac video with Vorbis audio, that's horribly
>> broken!
> 
> I believe FFmpeg's libavformat supports Dirac and Vorbis in mkv.

Won't be useful by default in Fedora unless ffmpeg separates support 
like Gstreamer does.

Rahul




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