Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Monday 06 February 2006 08:41 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
> 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.

I just want to point out that theora is a powerfull codec. Yes we ship encoder 
and decoder and xine/kaffeine does support it.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH,  Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx