'Restricted Formats' wiki page restructuring

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sat Jun 3 03:49:16 UTC 2006


On 6/2/06, ओंकार शिंदे <onkarshinde at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just upgraded to Dapper. I observed that most of the non-Free media formats can be played
> using three media players, rhythmbox, totem (totem-gstreamer) and gxine by installing few additional
> packages.
>
> Following are the packages I needed to install.
>
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly,
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-pitfdll, w32codecs,
> libxine-main1, libxine-extracodecs, gxine
>
> I tested following types of media
> mp3, avi, wmv, mp4, m4v, mov, rm
>
> In my opinion this pretty much covers the formats that an average user will ever will play. So we
> need to restructure Restricted Formats wiki page accordingly.
>
> Also IMHO, gxine has a pretty simple interface compared to xine-ui. So better recommend it instead
> of xine-ui.

I agree on all points and this is consistent with the in-svn docs.
However, remember users of breezy and hoary, as those distros are
still supported.

Corey


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