Change the default settings of Kubuntu to improve the first time user experience

[Rohan Garg]

I see, I was merely talking from a packaging perspective since I saw
that vlc depends on libav.
Regards
Rohan Garg


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Rohan Garg <rohan16garg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Please not that we cannot ship some multimedia things like libav due
>> to patent issues as a result of which apps like vlc cannot be shipped
>> ( and by extension, same thing goes for chromium though I am not
>> entirely sure about that, maybe someone can offer a better explanation
>> of why we can't ship chromium as the default ).
>
>
> just to be clear.  vlc features a plugin system, there is no hard dep on
> libav, there is not even one on libasound or qt for that matter. the ubuntu
> packaging is simply done in a way that all demuxing/decoding/video output
> plugins are put in one package. so, while a lot of the codec support comes
> from libav for a default distribution it is not required (AFAIR vlc natively
> supports everything we by default care about  - vorbis, flac, theora).
>
> HS
>
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