Re: Now, that I got people talking...

[Nicu Buculei]

Lucas Saboya wrote:
> why cant we use another free video format that doesn't have this kind of 
> trouble, shouldn't save us a lot of time and sake ? :D

We use, the format is Ogg Theora and it is free.
The problem is *the tools*. The tools for editing Theora videos are... 
let's say immature.
There are out there a larger number of tools which can also edit Theora 
videos, but they are intended primarily for other formats (and sometime 
work internally using those formats), which are not free.
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Jeff Spaleta <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Valent Turkovic
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  > There are two projects; saya-videoeditor [3], myvideoeditor [4]
>
> saya currently relies on the OpenVIP media framework..which uses ffmpeg.
> the reliance on ffmpeg makes its nearly impossible to include in
> Fedora.  I can not stress this enough, applications which have compile
> time dependencies on ffmpeg will be difficult to place in Fedora.
> Unless someone figures out how to patch out the encumbered
> technologies in ffmpeg, we can't ship ffmpeg. And even if we did find
> a way to patch out everything we can't distribute, it may not be worth
> doing because we would be in effect shipping a significantly crippled
> ffmpeg library since ffmpeg does not understand the concept of
> pluggable runtime codec support.
>
> Its a real shame, if we could ship a limited version of ffmpeg which
> support unencumbered codec technologies we would have the ability to
> ship versions of several multimedia frameworks and applications.  But
> the way ffmpeg is structured as a project and a codebase, makes its
> difficult to safely work with.