Re: Video code for Insight?
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:43:44AM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:22:14AM -0500, Paul Frields wrote:
> http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
>
> This page ("Video for Everybody") has an interesting approach to a
> one-size-fits-all page for video that we should consider for Fedora
> Insight. Maybe Simon knows if it would be possible to use this inside
> some sort of template for video download pages?
>
> Note that this approach does place Ogg Theora as first choice, but
> provides graceful fallbacks for other platforms as needed. If Fedora
> Insight is to serve as a marketing tool for Fedora, we need to be able
> to reach people who aren't already able to see Ogg Theora as well.
How do we handle that? Do we need to get a license from the patent
holders to use patented codecs via fedoraproject.org?
Codecs are the problem of the user, not the provider. I'm not saying
that's a solution or even a "good" problem, just that there's no
license needed on our part AFAICT.
We might be better off if our graceful fallback were to just load
the
Flash from YouTube/Vimeo/etc. Store our non-free codec versions in
Someone Else's Problem.
It should be possible to do that using the VfE suggestion, if I read
it right.
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