codec support

[Darryl Moore]

cool, can we make this available somewhere. Maybe with the funky new
ubuntu.ca logo on the desktop?

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:24 -0400, Dave Sullivan 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >