[CS-FSLUG] Multimedia support (again)

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:07:18AM -0600, Nathan T. wrote:
> Thank you both,
> 
> Ark is bound by the same laws as other distributions based in the USA,
> as such they cannot include proprietary video codecs; however, since I
> know how to build my own RPMs I have considered the option of taking
> their mplayer SRPM and patching it for my own personal use so I can
> get full or close to full multimedia support. I have not limited
> myself to Ark though, I have recently been looking at SLAX as a light
> alternative.

I use Debian and Debian, as a matter of policy, will not distribute
non-free software.  I installed mplayer from a Debian repository and
simply copied the codecs - downloaded from another source - into the
appropriate directory.  mplayer "just works" now.  No messy recompile
necessary.
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john-thomas
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