<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>So I sent an inquiry to the OLPC developer's list, asking which media formats were supported out-of-the box on the XO. No answer. </div><div><br></div><div>But I found this table on the interwebs:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="434px" bordercolor="#999999" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr align="center" class="tableHeader" style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; "><td width="120">Media format</td><td width="308">Required package(s)</td></tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><td colspan="2">Audio</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>OggVorbis</td><td>gstreamer-plugins-base</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>WAV, AU</td><td>gstreamer-plugins-good</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>MP3</td><td>gstreamer-plugins-ugly</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>aac/aac+</td><td>gstreamer-plugins-bad</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>AC3</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>WMA</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-ugly</td></tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><td colspan="2">Video</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>OggTheora</td><td>gstreamer-plugins-base</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>H.263</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-good</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>motionJPEG</td><td>gstreamer-plugins-good</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>MPEG1/2</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-ugly</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>MPEG4</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-ugly</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>WMV</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-ugly</td></tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><td colspan="2">Splitter</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>3GP/MP4</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-good</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>AVI</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-good</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>ASF</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-ugly</td></tr><tr align="center"><td>MPEG2</td><td>gstreamer-ffmpeg, gstreamer-plugins-ugly<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br></span></div></div><div>OLPC ships only the "base" and "good" plugins. That means only Ogg is fully supported, with ogg-vorbis for audio (music), ogg-speex (for speech) and ogg-theora for video. Also, WAV and AU should work.</div><div><br></div><div>If someone installs "ffmpeg" and the "ugly" plugins (ugly license-wise), a lot more formats become available, including MP3, AC3, WMA for audio, MPEG and WMV for video, and depending on the codecs used also some kinds of MP4, AVI, or ASF.</div></div><div><br></div><div>To install these on an XO, first do </div><div><br></div><div>sudo rpm -ivh <a href="http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm">http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm</a></div><div>sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna</div><div><br></div><div>which will install an unofficial Fedora 7 yum repository, and then</div><div><br></div><div>sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg</div><div><br></div><div>(this page was helpful to find this out: <a href="http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html)">http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html)</a></div><div><br></div><div>We should definitely test with the various ogg formats, but with some of the additional ones, too, as this was one of the points to go with GStreamer. We should try to drag-and-drop from the web activity directly into Etoys (via the frame clipboard) or download media to the Journal and drag to the clipboard from there, and also the "start with" menu in the journal.</div><div><br></div><div><div> <div><div>- Bert -</div><br></div> </div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">From: Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Date: 16. Juni 2008 22:21:48 MESZ</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">To: OLPC Development <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Subject: Supported media formats?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Which media formats are supported out-of-the box on the XO?<br><br>I found a partial list here<br><br></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Data_File_Formats">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Data_File_Formats</a><br><br>but it does not mention audio and video formats.<br><br>In particular I'm interested in what GStreamer can handle as installed - only the "good" plugins are shipped, but the plugin file names were not too helpful. I know Ogg is supported, but what else?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>- Bert -</font><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>