Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 19:09 UTC, submitted by Michael Anckaert
Recently, Canonical released Herd 5, the last alpha release of Ubuntu 7.04. Masuran.org took a quick look at this preview release, and concluded: "Ubuntu 7.04 will be a very sweet release. I can only hope that the new Gnome Control Center will be the default instead of the current menu structure and that desktop effects like Beryl or Compiz get a more prominent place in this wonderful operating system."
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I think that it only installs MP3 support (though I could be wrong) which is easy with Feisty, because it has the universe and multiverse enabled by default in which case the gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 package is there for mp3 playback. I think for the wmv, wma etc you still need the w32codecs which I'm not sure if they're installed or not. They have more of a 'legal' issue than any of the other codecs.
It's true that the "w32codecs" package has more of a legal issue than any other package, because the DLL files contained within are Microsoft's copyright, and as such can't be redistributed without permission.
Fortunately however, the only common video format requiring these DLLs was WMV9 -- earlier WMV versions, and both versions of WMA, could be handled by the ffmpeg codec package. With this version of Ubuntu, the ffmpeg package now includes a WMV9 decoder, meaning the w32codecs package probably has no use whatsoever any more.
What's more, if you live in the States and want to remain 100% legal there, you can purchase WMV decoder elements for GStreamer (based on Microsoft's source code) relatively inexpensively from Fluendo.