On Sep 13, 10 02:04:32 -0500, Charles Wight wrote:
The only drawback I see in openSUSE from Ubuntu (on our regions, nobody know of Fedora) is the strict "open" philosophy, making ot a bit difficult to include mp3 and libdvdcss.
I think "restricted" format handling is VERY important, assuming that OpenSUSE/Novell actually desire increased market presence.
I agree. Decent multimedia handling is expected to be commodity. openSUSE still has a long road to reach this.
New users, whether technically astute or not, will expect the OS to handle all their illegally downloaded mp3, m4a, wmv, and xxx files gracefully. Getting OpenSUSE to play "restricted formats" has actually become increasingly difficult over the last several years.
This "increase" was countered in 11.3, where a first attempt was made to handle the situation gracefully at least for amarok. If you click on an mp3 file, amarok shows a requester Amarok currentl cannot play MP3 files. Do you want to install support for MP3? [Install MP3 Support] [No] And then it goes out and searches community repositories for those codecs that we cannot ship with the product. We need more of this. I'd like to assist any volunteers with getting the legal hurdles right. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 __/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) "You are trying to use packages from project 'openSUSE:11.3'. Note that malicious packages can compromise your system." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org