new repositories for codecs

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 00:17:04 UTC 2006


On 12/13/06, Cody Somerville <cody.somerville at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>  I don't think it would be wise to endorse third party repositories.

We need to endorse some third party repos for somethings, like
w32codecs and libdvdcss2.

>
>
> On 12/12/06, bapoumba < bapoumba at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone :)
> >
> > As you may know, there are new ubuntu repositories for codecs (breezy,
> > dapper, edgy), after plf stopped maintaining ubuntu packaging :
> > http://blog.racoon97.net/
> > http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/www/
> >
> > I mailed racoon97 and the french team (the french wiki page for codecs
> > currently points at racoon'blog) to see if they would be interested in
> > having their repository posted in the english wiki :
> >
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#w32codecs
> for ex.
> > Not sure about easyubuntu though.
> >
> > I posted that information on ubuntuforums.org :
> >
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1875573&postcount=8
> >
> > What do you think ?
> >
> > Cheers, and thank you for your work,
> > Isabelle

Isabelle,

The two packages we are interested in are w32codecs and libdvdcss2. I
see they are provided for, so if somebody can verify their quality, we
shoudl change their links.

Corey




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