everyday multimedia not supported in Ubuntu (Re: 3 days from the release, 3 machines, a few issues.

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:02 +0200, Philippe Landau wrote:
> in other words: the multimedia that most users want to use
> will often not work and there will be no sound,
> but that is not relevant because Ubuntu does not support it :-)
> if Canonical told this new users upfront, that would be more honest.

Um, you should not jump to conclusions. This is what one user
experienced. Others (I guess the vast majority) have no sound or codec
problems whatsoever. After installing w32codecs, libdvdcss and other
stuff (clear instructions are in Wiki) I can watch more formats than I
can in Windows. Neither Totem, nor Xine nor Mplayer have crashed for me
in months. Sound just works.
Everybody knows that it would be nice if all formats could be supported
by Ubuntu out-of-the-box, but this is not a technical but a legal issue.
Should you be hindered by that, contribute to fixing the laws in your
country