Fedora TV, the video quandary, and a request for advice (fwd)

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
>
>> Note that last time I tried to install Miro on Fedora, it was broken;
>> all the default videos are in non-free codecs so Miro itself ran but
>> no video worked (and I seem to recall it failed badly.) Have not tried
>> it of late, though.
>>
>
> of course all the non-default videos are in non-free codecs... major
> publishers aren't using free codecs. So its a classic chicken and egg
> problem. We have to pretend we are an open technology version of Sony and
> create demand for our open technology by getting out and front and producing
> our own content or paying for the production of content that uses the
> technology we are pushing. We've no hope of making things better unless the
> people who care about openly encoded a/v get out ahead and start producing
> content showcasing the tech.

/me wonders if we should be building something like Mininova for Ogm-only 
content...

http://www.mininova.org

--g

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