Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> On 4 Feb 2006 at 14:40, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 11:29:40AM +0100, Jens Siebert wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > osnews.com has a news article on a presentation of the next Novell Linux
> > >    Desktop with some videos which present the new features of the GNOME
> > > desktop used in NLD (http://www.linuxedge.org/?q=node/55).
> 
> GREAT DEMO: When trying to view video I with GNOME of 10.0 (using the defaulöt
> application, totem), I get (German L18n) "Totem konnte
> >>file:///tmp/NLD_SL_conf_1.avi<< nicht wiedergeben. There were no 
> decoders found to handle the stream, you might need to install the 
> corresponding plugins."
> 
> Great isn't it: For legal reasons, Novell/SuSE doesn't ship an 
> reasonable audio/video decoders, but still publishes videos with 
> proprietary formats like AVI that Novell/SuSE's own distributions are 
> unable to present.

Ulrich, could you please try to avoid spreading bogus stuff -- those 
videos were in no way "published by Novell". It's pretty obvious that some 
on in the audience captured that videos.


Regards
	Christoph