MplayerInstallHowto

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sat May 14 06:06:36 UTC 2005


On 5/13/05, Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 19:57 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > On 5/13/05, JanC <janc13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/14/05, Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >   Announcing a mplayer install howto
> > > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/MplayerInstallHowto
> > > >
> > > >   Please review it and correct it if necessary.
> > >
> > > The Ubuntu repositories in your example sources.list don't have the
> > > (almost surely illegal) w32codecs.
> > >
> > Good start there. Thanks for taking the leadership.
> >
> > 1. Ubuntu doesn't have w32codecs. Better to explain what they are and the risks
> > 2. Please use synaptic for the telling people how to install
> > 3. More clarity on which version for which processor
> > 4. Ubuntu uses esd by default. People trying to mess with it are in
> > for bad news, so don't mention them.
> 
>   These issues have been addressed, thanks for the corrections.
> 
>   It's a pleasure contributing to the wiki of course :)
> 
> --
> Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
> 
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You should point them to RestrictedFormats so they can add w32 codecs.

Corey




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