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By default Totem is installed, +</I>><i> however, and gstreamer is plugged into "gnome-codec-install" (which +</I>><i> seems really nice, do we use it?), so that wen you try to play an +</I>><i> unsupported video the first time, it will prompt to install the codecs +</I>><i> (it will also show a warning dialog about patents etc, but AFAICS this +</I>><i> comes from gnome-codec-install itself, not Ubuntu). +</I> +Well, gnome-codec-install is apt-specific, but it should be relatively +easy to adapt it or use some other similar program (not codeina). + +I'll try to look at it when I can. + +What is left is to figure out how would this specifically work then: + +- Tainted by default, yes/no? +- Option in the installer, yes/no? +- How should the codec installer tool handle tainted-disabled case: + a) Can install the codec from the disabled repo (with a warning) + b) Asks the user if tainted should be enabled + c) Error out, asking the user to enable tainted + d) No handling, standard "codec not found" error + (note: a,b,c require some way for the tool to know what codecs exist + in tainted - for that we need one of: + x) search tainted repo automatically, like rpmdrake for backports + y) as (x) but ask user first ("do you want to search in foobar") + z) list of tainted codecs, e.g. in an pcitable-like + semi-automatically maintained file, or in website + ) +- What is the proper way for the user to update his packages to tainted + versions - rpmdrake only considers updates from the /updates + repositories, so the user would get the fully enabled version of + package X only when an update is provided for it? + (I'm talking about GUI, "urpmi --auto-update" works in a terminal) + + +><i> If the user installs a video player depending on ffmpeg, e.g. VLC via +</I>><i> the software center, the codecs in ffmpeg will be pulled "normally", +</I>><i> i.e. silently. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Linux Mint had also gstreamer plugged to gnome-codec-install, so the +</I>><i> codecs will be installed if the user tries to play such a video with +</I>><i> totem (again with warnings). +</I>><i> +</I> + +-- +Anssi Hannula +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011344.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011213.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11373">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11373">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11373">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11373">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |