ya of cource they are atleast some of them. like x264 give best quality with smallest file size. now u ripp a dvd movie with xvid and again with x264 now see both video quality and size . you will find the difference. no 1 force a ripper the choose the better.
but making a format popular is not easy. its content that makes a format popular now . u see there are too many content like movies other videos are either xvid(avi) x264(mp4,mkv) or flv. so its up to content provider . On 4/27/09, tanjir <orko_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I agree with the fact that some proprietary formats are more popular. Is it > because they are good? It is because users were forced to use them. Being > most of them a specific OS users, they did not have the freedom to choose > but to adapt whatever good things they were told about. I agree we don't > have money to put fancy ads on the websites, billboards or on tv to promote > non-proprietary formats. If we keep supporting those evils, then users will > never feel the urge to know why they are evil and why we don't support them. > You may find followings interesting regarding this issue: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3 > We are not to compete with any one. We wanted our freedom- FOSS is all about > freedom. Ubuntu is part of the process. Let it be the way it is. > ----- > tanjir > visit http://www.tanjir.net > > > --- On Mon, 4/27/09, dark lord <darklord2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: dark lord <darklord2...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-BD] SUPER ubuntu >> To: "Ubuntu Bangladesh" <ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com> >> Received: Monday, April 27, 2009, 12:17 PM >> u just cant stop people using thos >> prop codec or format thats reality >> its everywhere but u can promote ogg and why its good . if >> that good >> enough to compit with thos prop format. in this case see >> lame mp3, >> xvid or x264 they are being popular for audio video and dvd >> ripping >> >> On 4/27/09, tanjir <orko_...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Is it our responsibility to create positive impression >> about others >> > proprietary or copyrighted materials which has legal >> and moral conflict with >> > us? We FOSS people from beginning are against >> proprietary file formats. We >> > need to convince people why mp3 is evil but ogg is >> not. We should not >> > promote people to use mp3 or other proprietary >> formats. >> > We have had this argument a lot of times before, Linux >> IS NOT to promote >> > doors or windows. I know there are a lot of popular >> softwares which run only >> > on Windows. It is more appropriate to ask the software >> makers to make them >> > available for Linux instead of asking Linux developers >> to hack the software >> > to run on it. Besides, most of the proprietary >> softwares prohibits any kind >> > of modification, or reverse engineering clearly in >> their terms and >> > condition. Just because we are doing in some cases >> (mosly for personal >> > reason and then sharing that knowledge) and nothing is >> happening does not >> > make these legal in the eye of justice. >> > The games which run on windows only, one will need >> FOSS app Wine to run on >> > it and that is NO GOOD REASON why Wine should be >> included in the main >> > distro. If needed, the user should do it separately >> and instead of having >> > negative impression about us, they should have the >> negative impression about >> > those who took their freedom away. We are not robin >> hood or pirates of >> > hi-tech industry. >> > Remember, popular is not equal to good. >> > ----- >> > tanjir >> > visit http://www.tanjir.net >> > >> > >> > --- On Mon, 4/27/09, dark lord <darklord2...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> From: dark lord <darklord2...@gmail.com> >> >> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-BD] SUPER ubuntu >> >> To: "Ubuntu Bangladesh" <ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com> >> >> Received: Monday, April 27, 2009, 11:02 AM >> >> যখন নতুন >> >> ইউজার ইনস্টল দিয়ে >> >> দেখবে ভিডিও এমপি৩ >> >> চালাতে পারবেনা >> গেম >> >> খেলতে >> >> পারবেনা তখন তাদের >> >> উবুন্টু বা >> লিনাক্স >> >> সম্পর্কে নেগেটিভ >> >> ধারনা স্ ষ্টি >> >> হবেনা ? >> >> >> >> On 4/27/09, নাসির খান <nasir8...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > এধরনের আরও অনেক >> >> উবুন্টু খুজলে >> পাওয়া >> >> যাবে। কিন্তু মূল >> >> উবুন্টু দেয়াই ভালো >> । ঐ >> >> > উবুন্টু দেয়া হলে >> >> একেবারেই নতুন >> উবুন্টু >> >> ব্যবহারকারীরা ভুল >> >> বুঝতে পারে। >> অন্ধকে >> >> > দুধ চেনানোর মত >> হয়ে >> >> গেলে সমস্যা। >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > Nasir Khan Saikat >> >> > [নাসির খান সৈকত] >> >> > www.nasirkhan.co.cc >> >> > nasir8891.wordpress.com >> >> > -- >> >> > Ubuntu Bangladesh mailing list >> >> > ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> DARKLORD (:= >> >> -- >> >> Ubuntu Bangladesh mailing list >> >> ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> __________________________________________________________________ >> > Yahoo! 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