On Friday 04 October 2002 02:57 pm, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I haven't installed rh8 yet, but did they at least, rig the various > multimedia/web programs to offer/automaticaly to convert mp3 to ogg? > Because it would be very annoying for newbies/people who don't have time > to play with the os to start converting manually or to even think about > the concept of converting it.
i didnt see any convertion programs in rh8, during the 15 minuets i had it installed. > did they at least explain what to do when u want to run an mp3 in xmms? > i.e: a popup that direct u to a good conversion program? > nothing. just an error msg that says "this type of file is not supported" or something... imagine that. tal. > > * - * - * > Tzahi Fadida > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com > * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * > > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at > http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ilya Konstantinov > > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:20 PM > > Cc: Linux-IL > > Subject: Re: xmms rh8 > > > > voguemaster wrote: > > >Honestly I don't quite get it. > > >How can they break such a behaviour or supported feature of > > > > the system ?? > > > > >RH at previous versions could play mp3 easily, now you can't > > > > use XMMS ?????????? > > > > >This makes me think twice about this release.. > > > > RedHat already had to pull off all releases of RedHat Linux up to and > > including 6.1 from the mirrors because of a copyright suit from Agfa > > Monotype over providing an "Arial" font (it was not > > Monotype's original > > Arial, so I guess the suit was about confusing users, making > > them think > > they're using the genuine Arial font while they were using a > > knockoff, > > damaging Monotype's sales and reputation). > > > > They won't risk having to pull 8.0 off the shelves over some > > copyright / > > patent issue. > > > > P.S. I can think of another patent violation in a common free > > software > > app. When I asked the coders about it, they said their policy was to > > keep silent and act surprised when/if they'd get a legal > > suit. I guess > > I'll keep silent as well :) > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
