A few months ago we ran a poll about the most important non-free Linux apps. We had over 8,000 votes in that poll and we consider the results pretty interesting. Interesting enough to push Linux's market share if a distro capitalized on them?
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libxine-extracodecs contains everything you need for anything playback (except for libdvdcss and w32codecs), a search for 'codecs' in adept or synaptic will reveal this.
According to this guide, there's more work to be do done that simply installing libxine-extracodecs.
Besides, how I am I supposed to "guess" the right package name? There's room for improvement here, I think.
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libxine-extracodecs contains everything you need for anything playback (except for libdvdcss and w32codecs), a search for 'codecs' in adept or synaptic will reveal this.
I was thinking of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
According to this guide, there's more work to be do done that simply installing libxine-extracodecs.
Besides, how I am I supposed to "guess" the right package name? There's room for improvement here, I think.