Multimedia SIG

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Mon Jan 16 10:04:33 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:44 -0500, Trever Fischer wrote:
> Greetings from FUDCon, in Blacksburg, VA.
> 
> I know that only a handful of people might recognize me on devel@, but
> something that's been rolling around in my head for a little while is to
> start a Multimedia SIG in fedora.
> 
> I know there exists the audio and music SIGs, but they focus more towards
> providing a platform on fedora for users to *create* audio content.
> 
> Something that I feel is missing is a general purpose SIG that aims to
> make sure that multimedia use, enjoyment, and consumption on Fedora is
> taken care of very handsomely. This includes focusing on topics such as
> sorting out all the mess behind MP3 support (i.e. doing more than simply
> telling a user with 3k mp3s in a collection "use ogg"), managing photos,
> improving support for flash (obviously without explicitly saying "fedora
> supports flash"), doing fun stuff with streaming, making sure pulseaudio
> always works, etc.
+1 to this idea.

I know it's difficult to stay in bounds of 100% "legality, freedom and
openness", but there are many things that could be done (without
crossing these bounds) to make dealing with media issues easier for
users.

-- 
Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic



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