Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Andrew Choens <andy.choens@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > My 9.3 installation plays mp3s just fine, thank you. It's just not in
> > > > the box, but it's easily remedied, no hassle, and absolutely no need
> to recompile anything.

There is no need for a negative reaction to this.

As long as the necessary rpms are accessible via YOU, there isn't a
problem at all, and this is nothing like what Red Hat did, because
they simply axed support and made independent packagers do it for
them.  If YOU downloads/installs it, it's official and it won't
confuse your rpm database.

Ironically, many people in the Fedora/RH world have asked the Red Hat
include the legally difficult rpms via their update tool.  Since
including these rpms in the boxed version sold in the US is
potentially dangerous for them, I understand the decision completely. 
Maybe we'll see enhanced multimedia support via this.  Perhaps they
will start letting you download the win32 codecs that would make xine
fully functional.

--andy


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