[Bug 650978] Re: Amarok shows dialog to install encoding codecs unconditionally

[Myriam Schweingruber]

[quote]And, depending on how you look at it, the normal use of Amarok
(at least for me) is to play media files and not to encode them. Maybe
it would be possible to make that dialog only check for playback codecs
and offer a second download box whenever someone starts an action that
requires an encoding codec.[/quote]

Amarok will have transcoding in the 2.4 release, so these will certainly
be necessary at some point.

Just for clarification:
Did you install Ubuntu or Kubuntu? If it is the former, you install the gstreamer codecs when installing Maverick, but Amarok and Kubuntu requires the codecs for the xine backend. Are you sure it asks for "encoding" packages or isn't it just suggesting you install the libxine1-ffmpeg package?


** Package changed: amarok (Ubuntu) => phonon-backends (Ubuntu)

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Amarok shows dialog to install encoding codecs unconditionally
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