Re: OGG support [was Re: KDE RedHat project]

[Emily Brantley]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>  On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 19:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
> >Hi
> >
> >
> >>   I'd argue,  however,  that "positive propaganda" is the right 
> >>strategy here too:  if RH (and much of the OS community) takes the 
> >>principled stand of providing a free media stack,  it ought to put a 
> >>little bit of energy into promoting free media formats -- for 
> >>instance,  it would be nice to see a web site promoting the Ogg Vorbis 
> >>streams that are out there,  just as there are sites promoting the SBR 
> >>heresy...
> >>
> >>http://www.tuner2.com/
> >>
> >
> >That does seem like a good idea to me. If you got other areas that we 
> >can improve the the promotion of free media formats,  do post to the 
> >fedora-marketing list.
>  
>  
>  I'll tell you what else would be very useful here.
>  
>  A site with simple, easy to follow instructions on how to get OGG
>  formats playing on other platforms, and preferably in these platforms
>  default players.
>  
>  One of the biggest sticking points I've had with getting people to even
>  try OGG formats is getting their platform (usually OS X) to be able to
>  support this format.
>  
>  Having a place where people could be pointed to that tells/shows them
>  what to do and also has the links to the software that need (hopefully
>  in small, easy to download bits) would make it a lot easier to get
>  people to try (and use) vorbis.
>  
>  As and example, I've tried to get my government in Australia to use OGG
>  formats for parliamentary needs, but the sysadmin just tells me it's too
>  hard to install on some platforms and that they will stick with
>  proprietary formats (and no government should use these for information
>  distribution) because people just have these installed on their systems.
>  (Strangely, comments from me that the formats they support aren't even
>  supported by the manufacturers on my system seem to fall on deaf ears).
>  
>  Being able to say to these people, go to this page and follow the simple
>  instructions and you'll be able to use OGG formats would make selling
>  the idea of OGG much, much easier.
>  
>  
>  Rodd 
when somebody isn't able to play a video or audio i've ripped in ogg, i
usually point people to this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help

it could probably use some improvement (like screenshots and detailed
guides).

em.