Re: [linux-audio-dev] Lionstracs / Linux Audio at Musikmesse report

Dave Robillard wrote: The problem is that the guy that took the video used a camcorder with firewire output, he is not a Linux expert, he uses windows on his PC which has very to easy tools to transfer the videos to the PC and make a video file out of it. and as we know windows software usually lets you only encode using Microsoft's codecs. Ok one could later reencode the videos to divx or whatever but it takes time and since the company's resources are limited no one has the time to do it. I'm against proprietary formats too but unfortunately there is no pratical alternative yet (a format that can be easily viewed by anyone). Let's hope ogg/theora gets a hold in the market soon. As said the target of the Mediastation is every user not only the linux user (the linux user will be able to tweak the keyboard in all it's aspects, but the basic system is made to work like an embedded system without expecting special knowledge from the users). The target are musicians and musicians usually aren't big computer experts and can't even install a third party video codec on their windows PC but they are certainly interested in seeing the videos. It' easy to speak from an idealistic point of view but the pratical reality in the business world is unfortuntately different. I agree too but there is too much money involved in video so it will be hard to displace the proprietary video codecs especially the win32 ones since they are installed on 90% of the world's PCs cheers, Benno http://www.linuxsampler.org