Re: promoting free media codecs from GNOME

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 16:30 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-05-07 at 01:06, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > 100%. I like this plan, I'm glad to be a part of it, let's do it! ;-)
> 
> A more subtle approach which would avoid confusion would be to offer
> selections like
> 
> 		Audio (music)
> 		Audio (lossless)
> 		Audio (speech)
> 		Video (low bandwidth)  [BBC and Vorbis]

In case others were wondering what Alan was on when he wrote that, the
Beeb has released a new video codec called "Dirac". See this page for
details:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/10/bbc_develops_codec/
and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac/

> 		Video (conferencing)   [eg QV30]
> 		Other proprietary encodings...
> 
> and put them on a secondary menu if they are present

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