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: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.
Member since:2005-11-11
//Besides, how I am I supposed to "guess" the right package name? There's room for improvement here, I think.//
(1) Put a DVD in the DVD drive. The default player will start up and it wiil tell you the name of any uninstalled package(s) you wiil need to install to play it.
or ...
(2) Start your package manager. Hit the search button. Type in "dvd". Read the descriptions of what is then listed.
It really isn't that hard.
BTW ... dvd decoders and mp3 codecs aren't part of Windows standard install, either.
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.