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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 07:57 AM EDT |
You know, I'm reminded of a study here.
I think it was by a guy called Milgram.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Kilz on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 08:33 AM EDT |
In my country the authorities have recently
changed the law
so
that home owners who wish to build their own home must
get the
work certified
by a qualified builder. Now I know there's a
lot more
physical labor and
public safety involved in building a
house than in
a desktop OS, but having
done both I suggest the order of
complexity
is comparable, and is sufficient to
deter some would-be
builders.
To have to build your system is regarded as
somewhat
Stallmanish
to the majority of folks who do not read Groklaw.
However
are those who cannot or will not install additional
plugins
when required
further down the path of indolence, or
choosing no?
You are trying
to make a point by a false premise that the
installation of software is just to
hard for the user.
Possibly another false premise is that its only available to
a specific distro. The
software that is available to ALL known linux
distros. Not just some. Not just the one I use. But
ALL. Its a choice
to install it. If you
choose a distro that cant install software, well thats a
problem. But its not the fault of the person posting the
media.
If you
will not install a piece of open source software that
is capable of viewing the
media and you are complaining it
will not
run you have lost the point that it
will not run. You can
make a point that it will not run because I have not
installed the viewer that is needed by your chosen OS.
Let's
look again at PJ's comment"
There is now [a video on this page] for those with
the
stomach
for to watch the entire hearing and who have the ability to
view
something in [.wvx format], which doesn't include me.
Perhaps PJ
has chosen not have plugins which view .wvx.
Note that .wmv is the default video
container format on the
most widely used desktop OS, and a player is provided
by the
OS vendor. wvx appears to be a stream playlist wrapper which
is
unwrapped server-side to provide the content in whatever
format.
Note also
that the inability of W3C to agree on a codec or
format
for html5 video leaves
the field wide open for content
providers
to use anything they choose.
For
the record VLC is reporting the video as
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3)
English
320x240 29.97 Planar 4:2:0 yuv
Windows Media Audio 2 (WMA2)
English stereo
32000Hz 16bits/sample
If you will not install software, open
source software, to
view something. You cant complain it wont run. You are
using
a false premise to prove a point that the media isn't
available to all.
The only point you can make is that the
software isn't viable by people who
haven't installed the
necessary viewer for their chosen OS.
Refer
also to the thread under the previous story
The DMCA conference
streaming seems to use
Silverlight
Here is the proof that the
point you are making is that the
media is not viable to all. Silverlight is not
available to
Linux users. Moonlight is, but it doens't do a good job and
isn't
available for all distros. In this case you can prove
that the media isnt
available to all, its a good point. No
one is saying the point isnt valid, just
how we prove it to
be valid. You cant do that if your method of showing its
valid is easily proven false.
Whats happened in the article we are posting
under isn't the
same. You are comparing pears and apples.
1. The software
to view the file is available to all Linux
distros.
2. Said software plays
the media.
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 04:39 PM EDT |
| Perhaps PJ has chosen not have plugins which view .wvx.
Exactly
correct. And I should not have to.
PS Most people in the world now use
Android or
Mac OSX, by the way. The desktop is practically
over, and so is
Microsoft. So to continue to use
a format that most people don't use, now that
mobile
is in many cases the primary way some use the
Internet, is old fashioned
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