Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 25th Oct 2006 08:41 UTC
Linux 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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RE[3]: It is a hurdle
by dimosd on Wed 25th Oct 2006 10:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: It is a hurdle"
dimosd
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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RE[4]: It is a hurdle
by hal2k1 on Wed 25th Oct 2006 10:26 in reply to "RE[3]: It is a hurdle"
hal2k1 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.

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RE[5]: It is a hurdle
by dimosd on Wed 25th Oct 2006 10:30 in reply to "RE[4]: It is a hurdle"
dimosd Member since:
2006-02-10

It really isn't that hard.

Believe me, I will put a ridiculous amount of time and effort to make things work, if needed. I can afford it and I enjoy it. But most people don't and I think that the barrier should be lowered.

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