Free software and video codecs (was: ANN: Chandler 1.0)

[Kay Schluehr]

On 11 Aug., 07:24, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu... at gmx.net> writes:
> > On 11 Aug., 04:43, "SPE - Stani's Python Editor"
> > <spe.stani... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As an open source project please be kind to Linux users and provide
> > > also your screencasts in open source video standards such (as ogg
> > > video) instead of only mov and flash.
>
> > Since it is an open source project you can add this functionality if
> > you like it.
>
> The program may be free software, but the video is not.
>
> The option of properly re-encoding the video is only available for
> those who have free access to the "source", i.e. the original video in
> lossless format. Since (according to Stani) the video is only
> available to him in non-free, lossy Flash or Quicktime, that qualifies
> as neither of "free access" nor "lossless format".

You are right and I shouldn't have responded when I actually don't
even care. My fault.

Kay