codec support

[Darryl Moore]

Hi all, I was just on slashdot where part of the discussion

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1815256 

was on the fact that event Ubuntu comes with popular codecs disabled,
requiring extra work for the user to enable them. This is a barrier for
the very demographic that Ubuntu is targeting.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

This is largely a response to US DMCA legislation. Since the rest of the
world (Australia excepted) does not have DMCA style legislation, does
anyone here have any interest in repackaging Ubuntu to include those
codecs by default. 

It could be a fun project which might highlight some software patent and
DMCA issues.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192928&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=15834909


cheers,
darryl