On 28/08/2021 01.23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/08/2021 01.20, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-08-27 18:00:04 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|> How is it, then, that the packages that you say cannot be |> distributed by OpenSuSE itself, have to be removed after distro |> installation, and replaced with the ones in the Packman repository that |> work? How can OpenSuSE provide those broken packages in the first |> place, if your assertion is true? OpenSuSE should just leave out those |> broken packages and let users install them directly from Packman. | |That would be worse. Why? Users who want working codecs can just get them from Packman. OpenSuSE is then not involved at all. I have never been able to view videos in any viewer software with the packages that OpenSuSE provides; Because those videos were not free.
For example, you can play ogg Theora videos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg You can also play mp3 audios, the patent is extinct IIRC. -- Saludos/Cheers Carlos E. R.