[CS-FSLUG] Another SUSE complaint

[Nathan T.]

On 10/15/05, Jukka <jukka.ylonen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2005/10/15, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com>:


[snip]

I have been in OpenSuse mailing-list from the beginning and there has
> been a lot of discussion/complaints about lack of multimedia codecs,
> and the answer has been every time that freely downloadable
> distributions _cannot_ include non-free/patented codecs because of
> the potential lawsuits (I bet you did know this already - didn't you
> :) . I think if you buy a boxed distribution from Novell, you get
> those missing codecs - because Novell has paid their licences. I'd
> like to help you to download those codecs from somewhere, but I
> haven't done it myself for a long time (I don't play much music/videos
> with computer). Sorry :(
>
> Blessings,
> Jukka
>

Actually I thought the reason SUSE couldn't include the codecs was because
they didn't have the licenses, I had not idea it had to do with the
distribution being freely available as a download. Can you do me a favor and
ask if the codecs are in the box set, also I would like to know if the
codecs (all of them, I want full mm support) are only in RealPlayer or if
they are actually available to better programs like Xine or mplayer and Juk.

If SUSE has all the codecs in the boxed set then that's brilliant, it would
also justify buying a box if I don't come across any other problems. I've
managed to get the rpms from packman to work and now I can play mp3's in
Amarok through Xine which doesn't have that huge lag the Helix backend has,
but I still can't play mp3's from juk or the rest of KDE and it's
applications. I haven't yet tested video support but since I have installed
the win32 codecs it should work, I'll give kaffeine a try later to make
sure.
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