Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-19 Thread Ian Malone
2009/3/17 Bryn M. Reeves b...@redhat.com: On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:48 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Please remember Wackipedia is often simply the collected urban legends, misunderstandings and general cluelessness of its contributors. What Wackipedia has to say and what the

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] [Fwd: Re: MPEG-1 read support]

2009-03-17 Thread Tom spot Callaway
We have reviewed this, and disagree with the assessments made in Wikipedia. ~spot ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alan Cox wrote: Please remember Wackipedia is often simply the collected urban legends, misunderstandings and general cluelessness of its contributors. What Wackipedia has to say and what the actual situation (reviewed by people competent to give legal opinions) is are often quite different.

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Please remember Wackipedia is often simply the collected urban legends, misunderstandings and general cluelessness of its contributors. What Wackipedia has to say and what the actual situation (reviewed by people competent to give legal opinions) is are

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:48 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Please remember Wackipedia is often simply the collected urban legends, misunderstandings and general cluelessness of its contributors. What Wackipedia has to say and what the actual situation (reviewed by people

MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-16 Thread Stanisław T. Findeisen
Why doesn't Fedora have MPEG-1 support (playing)? Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1#Patents they say: MPEG-1 video and Layer I/II audio may be able to be implemented without payment of license fees.. And it looks that there are various GPL programs/codecs ready. So what's the

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:36:19 +0100 Stanisław T. Findeisen sf181...@students.mimuw.edu.pl wrote: Why doesn't Fedora have MPEG-1 support (playing)? Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1#Patents they say: MPEG-1 video and Layer I/II audio may be able to be implemented without payment of

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-16 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 11:17 +, Alan Cox wrote: Please remember Wackipedia is often simply the collected urban legends, misunderstandings and general cluelessness of its contributors. It's the they said website. ;-) You need to check the references, and the references of the references.

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Bolt IT Solutions
it recognised that the support was now installed, but I'm looking at my home movies from about 5 years back. Regards Dave - Original Message - From: Stanisław T. Findeisen sf181...@students.mimuw.edu.pl To: fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:36 AM Subject: MPEG-1 read

Re: MPEG-1 read support

2009-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 15:06 +, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: Well, I don't know about wikipedia articles, some are good but others are not so good. Personally, I look on the Applications menu in Fedora, under Sound and Video on Fedora 10, for something that looks like a movie player. If