2008/9/2 Chris Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the GNU project has a recording of > Stephen Fry wishing them a happy birthday. Which, if you ask me, is > pretty cool. > > http://www.gnu.org/fry/ > > Related to that, I found this discussion kind of interesting. > > http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/09/their-own-worst-enemy.html > > There's only one problem with the Ogg Theora format - almost no-one > can view it. On most standard installations of Windows and Mac OSX, > there is no software that can play an Ogg Theora file. Which, to my > mind, rather defeats the object of having such a useful marketing > tool.
In addition, the Java player they used for that video absolutely sucks at scrubbing backward or forward. Even when I opened the stream up in a separate player in Ubuntu, it still wouldn't let me go forward or back. (In Windows and OS X, you can "scrub" but it sits there buffering forever and never actually starts the video at the place you selected.) One reason to go with proprietary software for some things: vetting against a larger number of users creates products that actually work in more use cases than the one(s) the software designer originally intended. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~ E.B. White, writer (1899-1985) -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
