Multimedia support [Was: Release8 reportinstallation]

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="James Gregory">

> Is there a way to get it to play these things?

If you have universe in your sources.list, apt-get install totem-xine

> I don't know what the legal repurcussions would be, but the user would be
> better served by being informed of how to play their patent-encumbered
> media file; irrespsective of whether we can ship with this stuff. Free
> alternatives won't help people do what they want to do in the common case.

We can *probably* document the ways around it, but even that is shaky.

- Jeff

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