On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:05:48 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 23:16 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Um, you snipped this line: > > > > "These extra packages provide support for a few rarely used codecs" > > Even if you install all codecs that are available for Linux, you are not > able to join every video from the Internet. > Consumers need more codecs than are available for Linux. The "rarely" is > relatively. I have no idea what you're watching and listening to, but how often does a user actually run into multimedia for which there's no linux codec? > > This hardly results in "a serious issue for all Linux distros". > > Yes, consumers can't consume, but that's what they want. Of course they can. I daresay most consumers running linux never see audio or video that linux has no codecs for. I challenge you to provide real world, serious examples of A/V out there for which there's no linux codec. > > [snipped rest of message, which does not deal with actual codecs, but > > other software that some users may consider essential.]# > > Yesno, there was also more about codecs. CD ripping! Ripping is no problem, unless you need to do so into the mp3 format ;) Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120912161251.4c6e2b10.cele...@gmail.com
