Fixing the FAQ guide

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

Alexander Poslavsky writes: 

> matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com wrote: 
> 
>> Robert Stoffers writes: 
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>>> Sean,
>>> Yes, this also has the effect of commenting out everything with a
>>> copyright issue (such as w32codec, libdvdcss2) :)
>> 
>>
>> We really can't have reference to unofficial repositories in any
>> official guide released with the distro. That includes marillat and
>> backports (as they are now) IMO.
>> M 
>>
> I saw something like this on ubuntu-users as well, but this is one of
> the main reasons people read the docs! They want to install w32codec and
> libdvdcss2. 
> 
> We all know why w32codec and libdvdcss2 are not in the regular
> repositories but everyone (that I know anyway) installs them anyway,as
> it is the only way to watch DVDs etc. If it is not documented how it is
> installed people will say that ubuntu is a bad distro etc and leave, or
> start looking for documentation in another place, and stop reading the
> wiki or docs on the computer. 
> 
> Just explaining why it is not there and how people might get it might
> make some users happy imho. These are low-hanging fruits. Easy to solve.

This is easy to solve. Not including reference to marillat does not mean 
that the issue will not be documented. I would recommend something like 
this: 

[start]
In order to be able to play dvd's, all you need to do is to open a terminal 
and type "sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh" 

In order to be able to play videos encoded in non-free formats, you need to 
install a package in synaptic called "gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg" from the 
multiverse repository. This will allow you to play proprietary video formats 
in totem. In order to play proprietary formats in mplayer, you need to 
install the codecs found at 
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html 

For any further information see the page 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
[finish] 

Obviously the language isn't right, but you get the idea. All this 
information is to be found on the wiki page RestrictedFormats. 

Adding non supported and incompatible repositories is simply not the correct 
way to get such support. 

Matt