could the "missing codec" redirection be more informative?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/23/2009 06:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   on a fresh (and barely configured) f12 system, i tried to view my
> first online .wmv file and was redirected here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_Items_Not_Found#Missing_Codec
> 
> which is moderately informative in terms of telling me what the
> problem is, but utterly useless in terms of telling me how to fix it.

We would if we could. Unfortunately we can't.  The patent page in the
link you referred to has more details. In particular,

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents#Can.27t_you_link_to_third_party_repositories_and_guide_users_to_find_such_software.3F

Rahul