[CS-FSLUG] Another SUSE complaint

[Nathan T.]

On 10/15/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 15 October 2005 3:22 am, Nathan T. wrote:


[snip]

Nathan, I've gone over this before but I'll do it again. If you are using
> the
> opensuse release, you CAN'T do much with multimedia - period! Those who
> have
> bought the release do have mp3 support. DRM has most users "tied up" with
> the
> legalities of what software can and can be included in a distro., and what
> libs. can ship with. Novell/SUSE ISN'T going to get sued because of DRM!!
> When you pay for SUSE 10.0, you ARE paying for the right to play mp3s.
>
> Fred


That doesn't really answer my questions though, I got the DVD eval version
which was supposed to have non-OSS software and that does play mp3's out of
the box although only through the Helix backend which is very slow to
respond to volume changes in the only KDE program that can use it. I can't
remember if you told me whether the box set includes all the available
codecs for multimedia support or not, although I'm hoping it does. Right now
it seems the only problem I can find with SUSE is a lack of codecs, when I
feel confident enough that it would be a worthwhile investment I would more
than gladly buy a boxed set if it has all the codecs installed (ie:
multimedia support on par with what Windows and Mac OS can have) with the
distribution itself.
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