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[Conrad Knauer]

On 9/23/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > Now, AFAIK, the Fluendo decoder (gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3) in
> > universe *does* allow us to legally play MP3s, but just not 'out of
> > the box'
>
> I curious here, and I have to admit a bit of ignorance.  I have a few
> gstreamer0.10 plugins packages installed in Edgy, some from main and
> some from universe (gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, -good, -bad, and -ugly),
> but not the fluendo one.    I can play mp3, so obviously one of these
> plugins packages contain the appropriate piece of code (not sure which
> one).

What program are you playing them in? (e.g. I use XMMS to play MP3s,
but AFAIK its independent of the gstreamer* packages)  Also, some of
the gstreamer0.8 packages can decode MP3s too as I recall.

> Would it matter for me (and I live here in Canada), from a legal and/or
> technical point of view to install gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 on my
> machine?