Re: Installation
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:05:48 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 23:16 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > Um, you snipped this line:
> >
> > "These extra packages provide support for a few rarely used codecs"
>
> Even if you install all codecs that are available for Linux, you are not
> able to join every video from the Internet.
> Consumers need more codecs than are available for Linux. The "rarely" is
> relatively.
I have no idea what you're watching and listening to, but how often
does a user actually run into multimedia for which there's no linux
codec?
> > This hardly results in "a serious issue for all Linux distros".
>
> Yes, consumers can't consume, but that's what they want.
Of course they can. I daresay most consumers running linux never see
audio or video that linux has no codecs for.
I challenge you to provide real world, serious examples of A/V out
there for which there's no linux codec.
> > [snipped rest of message, which does not deal with actual codecs, but
> > other software that some users may consider essential.]#
>
> Yesno, there was also more about codecs. CD ripping!
Ripping is no problem, unless you need to do so into the mp3 format ;)
Celejar
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