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Idea
#5344: Multimedia codecs metapackage
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Written by topias.virta the 21 Mar 08 at 21:30.
Category: Multimedia.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
I know it is easy to install audio and videocodecs in Ubuntu just installing Gstreamer* -packages or simply installing ubuntu-restricted-extras but...
For newbie installing Gstreamer -packeges by step to step is very hard and on other hand there is users like me, who never installs ubuntu-restricted-extras becouse it installs a lot of more than just multimediacodecs. I personally hate msttcorefonts and don't use Sun Java (IcedTea is open, and works better). I also prefer use Gnash becouse Adobe Flash usually means only problems. So for users like me there is no an easy way to install multimediasupport ”by one click”.
All what is needed is some simple metapackage to install audio and videocodecs to play most used multimediaformats. Like ubuntu-restricted-extras without flash, java or windows-fonts. Needed formats are:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio
- WMA
- MP4
- WMV
- XVID
- DIVX
- Quicktime
- Real Video
- 3GP
...and so much more as possible. Idea #316 ”Codec Manager” sound good too, but I think metapackage would work better.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 21:51
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Nobody really uses RealAudio and RealVideo, those formats are pretty damn dead. They had their prime like 1997, now nobody use them anymore.
3GP, nobody really use that either.
QuickTime aint that popular either.
And Ubuntu already comes out-of-the-box with support for FLAC and OGG I think. At least it should.
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travis wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 02:27
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And M2TS/AVCHD too!
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DJ_Peng wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 03:51
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Hate to break this top you, Eldmannen, but Real media is still used on major news outlet websites. Even the BBC video content is in the Real format the last time I checked (December last).
+1, for all the noobs that will ask how to get codecs before Intrepid comes out. (Anyone want to guess how many that will be? And then guess what multiplier you'll need to get the actual number?)
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tenplus1 wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 11:20
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When the Mvie Player comes across a video it cannot recognise, it'll let you install the codec for it straight from the repos, no?!?
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sedra wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 15:43
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flac and ogg are not restricted formats
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fluo wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 14:06
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well, use VLC!
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