Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 17:28, Stan Glasoe wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:59 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:22, Clayton wrote:
> > > I will probably cancel the pre-order and wait to see if they fix this
> > > stupidity.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Anders,
>
> Quit holding out on us and PLEASE tell us what needs to be done now so we
> can prepare for it when our 9.3 boxes arrive. Does YOU for 9.3 already
> contain the fix?

Yes, there are optional packages called 'multimedia packs' on the YOU server 
now, you can have a look at them. They need to be selected manually, just 
like the nvidia driver or the MS truetype fonts, and they have a warning 
attached saying only use if legal in your jurisdiction (or words to that 
effect)

> The MadPenguin article implies that SUSE deliberately 
> compiled all MP3 capable programs without MP3 support; is this not correct?

No, it is incorrect. mp3 support in most programs come from shared libraries. 
Libraries missing = no support, libraries present = support. There is rarely 
a need to hard code something like that.

> Why was MP3 excluded from 9.3?

No clue, but I would guess it's for legal reasons.