totem plug-ins

[Sanjay Sodhi]

I've dug up the message...

On 10/12/07, helane <helane at o2.pl> wrote:
>
> hello...
>
> when i installed ubuntu few months ago i had to install some propietary
> driver to run my compaq presario v3000. is there any way to check which
> one it was? and any other to replace it?
Try the latest liveDVD and see if the restricted manager picks it up.

>
> also are libdvdcss2 and w32codecs legal in canada? or as us not
> completely legal to use in ubuntu...

Yes for libdvdcss2 (they only violate patents) and no for
w32codecs(this is completely illegal everywhere, as it is direct copys
of the actual code written by Real, MS, etc.)


On 26/10/2007, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sanjay, I'm not a legal expert, but I don't think this is patent/copyright
> breach issue. Mplayer has been playing .WMV files for the longest time with
> these codecs.
>
> But if anyone in the community knows better, perhaps they should
> contribute to this discussion.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 10/26/07, Sanjay Sodhi <sanjay.sodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to detract from the topic, but is that the codecs pack that
> > allegedly breaches patent and copyright law?
> > I saw some mention of it on the list fairly recently. What exactly is
> > the issue, and what does that mean for end-users?
> >
> > On 26/10/2007, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Have you tried mplayer?
> > >
> > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html
> > >
> > > If you don't want to use mplayer, I think you can download the win32
> > > codecs for wmv from mplayer and install them.
> > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs.
> > >
> > > Andrew.
> > >
> > > On 10/26/07, john mcniven <wattknot at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi again, as I said before, I am new to linux. I am trying to find
> > > > plugins for totem so I can play wmv files etc. Any suggestions??? Thanks in
> > > > advance, John
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