"Jon 'maddog' Hall" <mad...@li.org> writes: > > > Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer > > media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be > > able to get right. > > Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in > their codecs, and encryption practices that would have the DMCA down on > the headquarters of Fedora, OpenSUSE and others. > > > movie or sound file > > H.264? Mpeg3/4/2? > > Have your friends send you Ogg Vorbis stuff. Plays fine. > > Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things (or at least > Microsoft thought it had paid up royalties on mp3 until Alcatel/Lucent > raised their hand a couple of years ago), so they can ship as many > royalty-bearing codecs as they want.
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!? I looked into making DVDs with one of my Debian machines at one point, and quickly accumulated a long list of things that had been intentionally left out of Debian due to clear-and-present patent dangers, and that I decided against pursuing *not* out of fear for the *technical* issues involved (pshaw!) but out of fear that I end up setting myself up for some patent-troll to `pursue a cross-licensing relationship with' me (did I get that euphamism right?) in the future. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
