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

[Philippe Landau]

Mario Vukelic 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. 
you would have to close your eyes if you did not
want to see the many users reporting similar issues since weeks.
and of course a lot of those trying ubuntu
and not getting their music and videos to work
will just go to another distribution, one that just works,
without telling you.
especially when seeing how people with such problems
get marginalised and ignored here.

> 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
i don't know why i would want to tell you what you should do.

kind regards     philippe

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02/27/2005 Re: Multimedia Hell :-/
> could they pleaaaaaase make multimedia "just work".

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> I wouldn't consider RestrictedFormats a guided script, nor a simple
> but complete how-to; it's more of a "why-not".