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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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