Agree for the wiki page:) Meego by default only supports limited AV formats to avoid the possible license and IP issues. For audio: wave, speex,flac, vorbis For video: only theora is supported.
Regards, Lisa >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Felipe Contreras >Sent: 2010年11月11日 19:22 >To: Robinson Tryon >Cc: Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list) >Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] audio and video codecs > >On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Robinson Tryon ><[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> we pretty much ship all of those that do not require licensing >>> contracts/deals... >> >> Would it be possible for us to be a bit more specific about the >> default/supported set? >> >> The set of codecs that require licensing contracts certainly vary from >> country to country. To be correct, I shouldn't say "require a license" >> or "require a contract," but more something relative to the likelihood >> of getting sued, as nobody can ever really get a bulletproof "license" >> to a particular codec, given the number of software patents that could >> read on the codec. >> >> In that vein, I know that representatives of the MPEG-LA have made >> vague threats against both Ogg Theora and WebM, however I hope that >> given the shared goals between MeeGo and other FOSS projects, Theora, >> Vorbis, VP8, and the Ogg and Matroska containers will all be supported >> by MeeGo right out of the box. >> >> I think it could be very helpful to have a wiki page listing supported >> codecs (and perhaps other supported formats, e.g. image formats) for >> Meego. I think we're going to hear this question come up often! > >Totally agree. > >-- >Felipe Contreras >_______________________________________________ >MeeGo-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
