On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:23:44 +0000, Artur Frydel wrote: > > (...) > > > I've found w32codecs also. Thery are needed by mplayer to work witch > > some windows codecs? Am I right? > > Yes. > > > Is any method to replace this packet - not using multimedia? > > IIRC, "w32codecs" is only needed for uncommon/rare codecs because main > codecs are included within mplayer. Yes. I've gotten rid of w32codecs a while ago, and I don't recall ever running into a video that was missing a codec. > Anyway, if you don't want to use multimedia repo (why? :-?) you can As to 'why', there are headaches. For example, recently audacity (which wasn't in dmo at the time) wouldn't work with the version of ffmpeg from dmo: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593162 The problem was fixed in a newer version of audacity, and Marillat, who is *extremely* responsive, quickly put that version into his repo, but the point is that you'll occasionally bump into things like that, and the Debian maintainer response can be a bit offputting - from the above report: ----- Above package versions are not official Debian packages. Debian unfortunately cannot guarantee compatibility with externally built packages. Please use Debian packages, or work with those unofficial package providers to improve their compatibility with Debian. Bug hereby closed. Please do tell us if your experienced problem is reproducible using only Debian packages, and we will investigate further. And please do continue to file bugreports - even if this one is judged as "wrong": We really appreciate the feedback! ----- Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- 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/20101114202715.bf676cbf.cele...@gmail.com