On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:04 -0400, LM wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
>Please search the list archives before proposing such a thing.
I apologize if I've offended you, but I have every intention of
continuing with the project. I simply asked what the status of a
patent unencumbered version of libxine was on Fedora on behalf of an
educational project I'm working with. The educational project is not
Fedora based. It's for educators everywhere using a variety of
systems (Linux, Mac, Windows). I think it's an admirable goal to
encourage Open Source in education. However, if one can't legally
create videos or play them back without running into legal issues, how
does one encourage schools to use Open Source and non-proprietary
formats?
Kevin was addressing xine specifically. There are plenty of other
playback libraries/frameworks.
Gstreamer is quite widely used these days, and is very modular.
Gstreamer plugins for unencumbered formats are shipped in the main
Fedora repositories, and gstreamer-based players like Totem will play
such formats fine.
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