[CS-FSLUG] Multimedia support in SUSE 9.2

[N. Thompson]

SUSE does include mp3 support, as far as I know only Red Hat doesn't.

The problem with multimedia support is for video formats mostly.

On January 24, 2005 02:31 pm, Jukka wrote:
> I just noticed this slashdot article:
> "Real Pays For Legal MP3 Playback On Linux"
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/01/24/0628212.shtml?tid=141&tid=155&tid=106
>
> Someone notes in discussion that mp3 patent owner (Thomson)  allows
> encoding/decoding for personal use, but wants royalties for commercial
> use. This is probably the reason why Novell doesn't include patented
> codecs in Suse - everyone can get them for personal use, but company
> cannot do it for anyone without paying royalties. Of course that
> doesn't explain why they don't include them in their non-free
> distributions. Or maybe they do - last version that I bought was 9.1
> but I am not sure what it was able to play "out of the box" (I don't
> play much my own music/videos, just listen radio and watch tv).
>
>
> Blessings,
> Jukka
>
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