On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
* Hans Ekbrand <hans.ekbrand@sociology.gu.se> [2009-01-22 15:19:14 CET]:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote:
You can use mplayer and mozilla-mplayer (debian packages). You need
realmedia codecs. Two options for installing the codecs:
- run
/usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh install
- install Linux PPC 20071007 codecs in your /usr/lib/codecs from
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
You'll need installing the package libstdc++.so.5.
Both of these, are not-the-debian-way.
Says who? The binary_codecs.sh script infact _is_ the Debian way.
Generally, running install scripts is *not* the debian way, apt-get is.
I don't know the details in this particular case.
Why not just apt-get from www.debian-multimedia.org?
Because that's not-the-debian-way.
Maybe not in your contry, but maybe in countries that does not
acknowledge software patents. I don't now your particular situation,
but this is my guess.