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Is OGG Theora Still A Viable Codec?

http://www.madpenguin.org

Don’t misunderstand me, as I’m not preaching the value of proprietary codecs. Despite Theora's shortcomings with rendering speed and overall playback quality in comparison to proprietary alternatives, this does not mean that all open source codecs are loosing ground in the fight for your video viewing freedom.

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Reader’s Thoughts on Mark Shuttleworth’s Response (Regarding Microsoft Codecs)

http://boycottnovell.com

Ubuntu's founder tries to defend inclusion Microsoft codecs, but misses a broader picture.

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MS (Mark Shuttleworth) Buys Codecs from MS (Microsoft)

http://boycottnovell.com

The mobile version of Ubuntu appears to be passing money to Microsoft, which has an effect on redistribution rights as well

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Summer of Code: Ogg Theora Port

http://open.neurostechnology.com

"...As some of you Neuros old timers may recall, we were the first to port the Ogg Vorbis audio codec to a portable HDD audio player. Now it's time, hopefully, to do the same with the Ogg Theora video codec..."

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Restricted Codecs Mess in Linux

http://www.madpenguin.org

here are a number of newcomers who migrate to Linux and then find themselves at ends with the confusion regarding restricted formats and codecs in the US. The laws regarding usage are confusing and all over the map, thus leaving many Linux distributions forced to mark them as possibly illegal to use in some countries, despite no solid evidence to actually support this outside of MPAA and RIAA rhetoric, which is hardly a court's decision. And in a recent article, I took this whole idea to task and examine how it may not actually be illegal to use libdvdcss after all.

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Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs) in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs.

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Overcome multimedia hurdles in Linux

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com

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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Codec Buddy - GNU/Linux distributions

http://fedoraproject.org

Fedora 8 will ship with Codec Buddy by default, providing users with a simple click-through GUI for enabling playback of various kinds of media.

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Ubuntu Gutsy Makes Automatix Obsolete

http://www.5thwind.com

I think anyone interested in Linux saw this NY Times article today. I agreed with the article for the mostpart except for the end where the author stated that “one challenge for Linux users is finding media players that work with encrypted music and DVDs. Ubuntu comes with a movie player, but it is not automatically configured to play copy-protected commercial DVDs.

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Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released

http://www.heise.de

Six years after the project was launched, developers at the Xiph.Org Foundation have released a beta version of the free video codec called Ogg Theora. The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded from the developer website.

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Illegal Codecs Put Me Off Linux

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

There’s one aspect of Ubuntu, and Linux in general for that matter, that’s putting me off. This is the fact that to play a DVD or use WMA/WMV files I have to install codecs that are technically illegal to use.

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