new repositories for codecs

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Corey Burger wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> * Corey Burger:
>>>> 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.
> 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?
> 
> Matt
>>
>>
> 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

Don't we have any Ubuntu repositories outside United States that can
provide these packages? If the files are distributed outside the US, and
if they don't come preinstalled with ubuntu[1], there shouldn't be any
problems... Just a suggestion :)

[1]unless someone moves Ubuntu distribution outside US ;)
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