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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Member since:2005-08-15
* Here's an idea: put a metapackage in multiverse that pulls in everything needed to get mp3/wmv/whatever playback. The needed packages are already provided (except for w32codecs and libdvdcss)
Let's call them ubuntu-restricted-multimedia and kubuntu-restricted-multimedia. *
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.
Member since:2006-02-10
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.
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2006-02-10
I have installed Ubuntu myself a few times, and it really is SO annoying to have to go through lots of extra steps to even get MP3 playback..
Here's an idea: put a metapackage in multiverse that pulls in everything needed to get mp3/wmv/whatever playback. The needed packages are already provided (except for w32codecs and libdvdcss)
Let's call them ubuntu-restricted-multimedia and kubuntu-restricted-multimedia.
Simple, right? So simple I am surprised that MOTU's haven't already done it.