Summary of Reddit thread

[Martin Bříza]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:49:56 +0200, Michael Catanzaro  
<mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 05:42 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs.
>> Chrome will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or
>> Chrome.
>>
>> The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low.
>
> Well keep in mind, Firefox and Epiphany both support Flash if
> installed with Adobe's RPM, and MPEG-4 if installed from rpmfusion.
>
> MPEG-4 is actually almost simple to install -- if only the rpmfusion
> web site was better.
>
> I think we need to accept that our multimedia story will never be good
> unless the user is able to discover and enable rpmfusion. We also need
> to accept that legal doesn't want us helping the user find rpmfusion. I
> don't see any way around this problem. :( But it would be really nice
> if their website had a nice, simple "click here to enable multimedia"
> button that would give you the RPM to enable; it's just too confusing
> right now. There is a list of links and you're supposed to notice
> "Enable RPM Fusion on your system" at the top of the list, but it's
> hardly an eye-catching link.
>
> Michael

It's easy if you know you want RPMfusion.
When I started using Fedora, it seemed infinitely strange to enable some  
random repository in my system to be able to play videos...