Which distro most video capable?
I've tried a dozen or so distros, settled on Mepis, does more out of the box for me, but it's light on video capability, ie: conversion avi,kp4,mpg, to dvd,or whatever, burning, creating,shrinking, quickpar, unrar, etc. so: is there one that will do all the things for me that I have been having to jump to xp to do? I know the answer is out there, 'cause some of you have used em all.
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Slackware also does all of that with no problems for me either, but it takes a while to resolve the dependencies. I use k9copy and DeVeDe for video conversion needs and k3b to burn whatever I create. I always run wine so i just use winrar. The truth is ANY distro can do all of that, you just have to be willing enough to resolve any dependencies and build the packages from source. |
Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast. Nice to have everything on there by default.
Regards, JKZfixme |
Most distributions are limited in what they can include by default due to patent and other "IP" issues. Many multimedia codecs, for example, are legal for individual use by end-users, but cannot be bundled into the distribution itself without paying distribution licenses (something almost impossible to do in open source). The most well-known of these being mp3 support, of course.
(A few distributions have managed to arrange agreements to distribute some of the more popular non-free codecs, but they're often considered to have "sold their souls" for having done so.) In Debian the officially-provided versions of mplayer, ffmpeg and such have several codecs disabled, due to their guidelines on what constitutes Free Software. But for most people it's easy to use the third-party debian-multimedia.org repository to install un-crippled versions of the same tools. I think most of the major distributions have one or more third-party sources available in this way. You just have to locate them. |
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