Multimedia plans for Edgy

[Daniel T. Chen]

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Guido Heumann wrote:

> In my expereince there's only one exception to this: vlc. Why not give
> vlc a chance? It's reasonably small/fast and free, and in my experience
> can play most of the video formats out of the box, without relying on a
> complex backend such as gstreamer. Perhaps this could be an option for
> Xubuntu edgy.

...Except for the fact that vlc would then have to be "neutered" by
default, since ffmpeg and libmad (mp3) are in universe, and the assorted
codecs like m4a/aac are in multiverse [0]. While the deliberate
inclusion of said media support is nice, we still have technical (build
dependency of a main package depending on libs in universe) and possible
legal gotchas.


[0] The only reason they're enabled by default anyway is because their
sources are distributed as part of vlc's. It's quite nasty and something
the MOTUMedia team will attempt to finish correcting for Edgy.

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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