Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:40 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 12:56, Mike wrote:
> > Wrong.. You needed to download the updates using YOU from SUSE to play
> > mp3's. They came up in the very first update. I think it switched in
> > 10.0 because they couldn't host them either.
> 
> 9.3 is to my knowledge the only suse version that didn't have mp3 capability 
> out of the box. As you say, you had to download special multimedia packs 
> through the online update
> 
> 10.0 reinstated mp3 capability out of the box, using the libhelix backend, 
> because Real has a valid license for mp3
> 
> And if I read the news articles correctly, in 10.2 or 10.3 (or whatever it 
> will be called) we will even get Windows Media capability out of the box, 
> again through the Real media player (and, through its libhelix backend, 
> through other programs as well, amarok can use libhelix for example)

  Much as I'm not amused over WM*, this is good to hear.