new repositories for codecs

[Corey Burger]

On 12/14/06, t u <towsonu2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)

Right, with the loss of PLF, this is exactly what is being offered: a
non-official repo for this stuff. However, we just need to verify that
this stuff works and is not going to nuke people's systems/contain
spyware/etc. (Isabelle, not saying it does, just saying that is
something we need to do)

Corey