RH10 multimedia support

Joseph Phillips jphillips at amphus.com
Fri Sep 5 22:56:16 UTC 2003


Like I said, I'm not a software engineer.  I do software QA for a
living, so I'm an expert at criticizing without being able to actually
fix anything myself.

Look, this is just a post from a regular user.  And I'm just
broadcasting some criticisms and some hopes that Red Hat reverses course
on their apparent abandonment of multimedia support.

I realize that "multimedia" is one of those areas that is very bound up
in legal restrictions.  But even so, Red Hat shouldn't abandon it's
users to a source-compiled mplayer, an xmms that looks like a
front-piece from a 1970's Kenwood receiver, or plugins that should more
aptly be called "hackins".

Yes yes, I know.  All opinions and no ability to submit patches.  My
deepest apologies!  ;)

PS.  (Now how about a substantive response?  Thanks.)

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:42, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It's the same issue with Java and flash player for the browser. I'm not shy
> > of the console, but still I'd prefer an easier way to get plugins installed.
> > Like the way IE does it for example: if you go to a site that has java or
> > flash, a little pop-up comes up and prompts you to automatically install the
> > software. I don't see why Red Hat can't accomplish this with the browsers
> > they bundle in their distribution (epiphany, galeon, konqueror, mozilla).
> 
> I'm sure they take patches
> 
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