Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things ... ... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!? While I've never touched

Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
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

Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!? Ahhh, what does it meant to do DVD-authoring? Moving encoded bits on a DVD? No problem! Taking video bits from my video camera (encoded into Mpeg) and putting it onto my DVD? No