Multimedia pack information wrong?
Hi, on http://www.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats is written: "However, if you would like to play MP3s on SUSE, you can install a Multimedia Pack from the YaST Online Update Servers." Is this still valid for 10.0? On the opensuse@-list I just read: "One is to install Realplayer and the helix-plugins for amarok and gstreamer. Another one is to install libmad and mad, or just everything from packman, what plays multimedia." Links to external repositories are not allowed, so would it be o.k. to change the text to: "However, if you would like to play MP3s on SUSE, you can install Realplayer and the helix-plugins for amarok and gstreamer. Another possibility would be to use external software repositories as long as you comply with your local laws. They are able to provide you with unrestricted 'mad' and 'libmad' packages, which allow MP3-playback." As I have not upgraded to 10.0 yet, I can't check it myself, but which additional yast-source (official SUSE ones) must I add to get Realplayer and the helix-plugins, if I start with the OSS- or Eval-version? This should then also be noted on the above page with a link to the relevant section in the installation doc. Ciao Siegbert
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 19:34, Siegbert Baude wrote:
Hi, on http://www.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats is written:
jfyi, this more something for the -wiki mailing list, the -doc one is around the handbook documentation.
"However, if you would like to play MP3s on SUSE, you can install a Multimedia Pack from the YaST Online Update Servers."
Is this still valid for 10.0? On the opensuse@-list I just read:
"One is to install Realplayer and the helix-plugins for amarok and gstreamer. Another one is to install libmad and mad, or just everything from packman, what plays multimedia."
Links to external repositories are not allowed, so would it be o.k. to change the text to:
"However, if you would like to play MP3s on SUSE, you can install Realplayer and the helix-plugins for amarok and gstreamer. Another
this is the official way, I have updated the page to mention this.
possibility would be to use external software repositories as long as you comply with your local laws. They are able to provide you with unrestricted 'mad' and 'libmad' packages, which allow MP3-playback."
there are no official *mad* packages on opensuse.org, so we should avoid this.
As I have not upgraded to 10.0 yet, I can't check it myself, but which additional yast-source (official SUSE ones) must I add to get Realplayer and the helix-plugins, if I start with the OSS- or Eval-version? This should then also be noted on the above page with a link to the relevant section in the installation doc.
look on the wiki page again :) bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de
Adrian Schroeter wrote:
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 19:34, Siegbert Baude wrote:
http://www.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats
"However, if you would like to play MP3s on SUSE, you can install Realplayer and the helix-plugins for amarok and gstreamer. Another
this is the official way, I have updated the page to mention this.
Thanks, Adrian for the fast action. I announced this also on the opensuse@ mailing list, so that everybody knows now, where to direct people asking for this. Just out of curiosity: Does the law in the USA really forbid to mention external repositories, even if you don't call them by name, and also mention that it could be illegal to use the provided software in certain countries? In Germany recently a court decided that it is allowed to mention it, but not to link it. Most probably you heard of this "Heise"-Urteil. Ciao Siegbert
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