reasons for split of libavcodec54 and libavcodec-extra-54, missing codecs and a metapackage.
Hi all,
Can somebody state for the reasons of a split of libavcodec54 and
libavcodec-extra-54 ? The only diff. I could see between both of them
are/were the three decoders which are in the extra-54 which are not in
libavcodec54.
I searched the archives over a year and a little above but didn't see
this query asked.
I have tripped on it whenever I'm installing the package on some
friend's, acquaintance's system. Can anybody clarify ? I would love to
add the reasoning to the wiki page
https://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs . I have already added the
bit of conflict between the two packages.
Is there a reason to have both the packages ?
Are there any codec packages which a user should download ? If you see
the wiki, it seems that not a single package is mentioned anywhere for
codec package/s.
I was looking for a decoder to play a video file which needs On2 vp7
decoder. Imagine my surprise to know that both vp6 and vp8 are there,
but vp7 is not there. Any ideas anybody ?
Lastly, is there a possibility of having a metapackage so people could
have all of it in one go ? Codecs, video player, the works.
something like :-
$ apt-get install debian-multimedia
Looking forward to learn more.
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