Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[steef <debian.linux@home.nl>]

Never heard of 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly' ? Just a creative codec-joke I 
guess.

Kind regards,

steef


Gary Dale wrote:
> On 11/05/12 08:52 AM, T Elcor wrote:
> > --- On Fri, 5/11/12, Gary Dale<garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You need to install, as tv.debian has already suggested, the
> > > full set of codecs. Follow his/her suggestion and run:
> > > aptitude search
> > > ~S~i~n'(libav|aac|aad|gstreamer|lame|ogg|ogv|mpeg|quicktime|xine|vlc)'
> > > then compare your output to the one listed in tv.debian's
> > > answer.
> > My problem with that approach is that the list seems to contain packages
> > that are mutually exclusive, for example, phonon-backend-vlc and
> > phonon-backend-gstreamer. If you have the former, you don't need the later.
> > And some packages are just weird: :)
> > i gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> > i gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> > i gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
> >
> > Generally, I prefer to install only the packages I need, so I was hoping
> > there'd be a more straightforward way then that.
> If you want the various codecs, you need the packages that contain them. The
> good, bad and ugly packages refer to the codec licensing terms and patent
> encumbrances.