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Overcome multimedia hurdles in Linux (Tech Republic)
Jack Wallen
discusses the playing of proprietary media types on Linux in a
Tech Republic article.
"Historically, Linux was unable to play files intended to only be playable with the Windows Media Player. However, with the help of codecs, Linux can play both audio and video files that were previously incompatible. Jack Wallen introduces the major players in the Linux multimedia party."
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Weak article Posted Nov 30, 2007 9:14 UTC (Fri) by morhippo (subscriber, #334) [Link] The author appears not to understand the difference between xine (and frontends) and mplayer (and front-ends). The word xine does not appear in the article. Nor does ffmpeg, the shared code-base of most multimedia players. The problems of binary codecs is not even touched. Nor is DRM. No KDE application is even mentioned. Nor is realplayer. In summary: Not very insightful and not worth the time reading, not even linking from LWN IMHO.
Weak article Posted Nov 30, 2007 14:42 UTC (Fri) by mbottrell (guest, #43008) [Link] Yup... another worthless article. It looks like an article written by someone who loaded a few default apps to play audio/video.. and spat out a few paragraphs. Anyone who's used Linux longer than 3 months will know as much as this article churns out. Move along, you can use your time much more efficiently elsewhere.
Weak article Posted Nov 30, 2007 16:12 UTC (Fri) by hitmark (guest, #34609) [Link] my guess, he fired up ubuntu and looked into the multimedia menu or something... hell, i find it interesting that xmms still get a mention, as i cant recall the last time i used it to play anything...
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