Re: Installation
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:19:35 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:40 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:51:39 +0200
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
...
> > > A serious issue for all Linux distros are codecs. We're living in the
> > > media age, consumer need codecs. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
> > > Last time (02 Sep 2012) I tried to upgrade my AV Linux (Debian stable),
> > > gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg should be automatically removed. I didn't notice a
> > > replacement that should be installed. Conflicts caused by codecs (just
> > > one issue) are an issue for most distros I know.
> >
> > ? I use standard A/V packages (Mplayer and VLC) from Stable (with some
> > Backports stuff), and never have any codec issues at all.
> >
> > What codecs would a typical user encounter that aren't available in
> > Debian?
> >
> > Celejar
>
> "There is at least one extra codec package available for amd64 and i386
> machines that is not available from Debian. On amd64, the package is
> w64codecs, and on i386, the package is w32codecs." -
> http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
Um, you snipped this line:
"These extra packages provide support for a few rarely used codecs"
This hardly results in "a serious issue for all Linux distros".
[snipped rest of message, which does not deal with actual codecs, but
other software that some users may consider essential.]
Celejar
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