codec support

[Mathieu Charron]

I did the same think... it took me forever to install a working MP3 codec
but it worked.
At least, they give you the choice to install them or not.

I find that: http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
it's a good idea I think, it let you decide what to do. I think it simply
download them from the universe of multi-universe repository and run some
script to install them correctly.

Mathieu Charron

On 8/2/06, Dave Sullivan <demsullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've already done it for my own personal Dapper CDs... it automatically
> installs Flash, Java, RestrictedFormats, mplayer, etc.
>
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:26 -0400, Darryl Moore wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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