<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Rohan Garg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohan16garg@gmail.com" target="_blank">rohan16garg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
<br>
Please not that we cannot ship some multimedia things like libav due<br>
to patent issues as a result of which apps like vlc cannot be shipped<br>
( and by extension, same thing goes for chromium though I am not<br>
entirely sure about that, maybe someone can offer a better explanation<br>
of why we can't ship chromium as the default ).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>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).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>HS</div></div></div></div>