Dave Robillard wrote:
You misunderstand. I'm not saying you're stupid for suggesting using the win32 codecs (if that's what you have to do to play the damn things, that's what you have to do, it's hardly your fault). I'm saying Lionstracs is stupid for requiring you to do so. Especially since they sell Linux-running products, and have taken so much from the free software world.
The problem is that the guy that took the video used a camcorder with firewire output, he is not a Linux expert, he uses windows on his PC
which has very to easy tools to transfer the videos to the PC and make a video file out of it.
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I'm against proprietary formats too but unfortunately there is no pratical alternative yet (a format that can be easily viewed by anyone).
MPlayer plays a whooole lot of formats (without using windows codecs or anything like that), far too numerous to list here; and you can obviously play them on a Windows or Mac machine.
Don't get me wrong, I can sympathise with the naieve camera user, but it's certainly not true that there are no formats out there that everyone can play!
-Dave
