Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Fedora policy is like GAYS IN THE > MILITARY ===> DONT ASK DON'T TELL and DON'T BOTHER :) Red Hat, for better or for worst (see my thread on Shuttleworth and Debian), is a publicly traded company. If you're a stock holder, you /might/ have something to say in the way it manages things. As a Fedora user, you don't. This said, I would have appreciated if, instead of being bashed, I would have been told earlier why Totem would never work swiftly with Windows Media(1). In business just as in open source software, there is no security through obscurity. (1) Many thanks to Frank Murphy for a few helpful lines on the matter. This said, I hope we can go on with determining if windows media codecs aren't, just as doc and xls formats, anything but a marketing scam. It seems some people show a strange eagerness to make sure the subject is not discussed. > Mathematicians writing compression/decompression algorithms? This is something I would be interested in :), I only see certain situations like > for se playing a music file with mplayer I see a ratio depending on which > bitrate a file was encoded in: The reason you can get a whole bootlegged movie on the internet that occupies much less than 4 GB, is because it's compressed. ( I suppose MP2 on DVDs also offers some compression.) In order to provide video on the net, Real Media, Windows Media, Flash also compress video, but to different degrees. Also, if a program is very popular and thousands of people are asking for it, by waiting just a few seconds before beginning a stream, you will feed more than one viewer at a time. With video, bandwidth is a concern. Anyways, that's how I understand things for now :) I'm sure some people will have more interesting considerations to add. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
