new repositories for codecs

[Corey Burger]

On 12/13/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> * Corey Burger:
> > On 12/13/06, Cody Somerville <cody.somerville at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey,
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> >>  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.
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> As far as I understand it, the preferred way of getting libdvdcss is via
> the libdvdread3 package and the default way of getting extra codecs is
> through gstreamer, right?
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> Matt
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Absolutely, but there are two problems with that:

1. libdvdread3 no longer contains the script to download libdvdcss2
2. WMV9 format is supported with the newest gst-ffmpeg and for all
released versions of Ubuntu, you need w32codecs and gst-pitfdll.

Corey