Re: Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion
On Mar 19 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: On Mar 17 2012, Andres Mejia wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs Wow, this is really, really well done. Good job, thank you! Thanks for the documentation. Really good work indeed. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFC http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/ DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion
Am 18.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Rogério Brito: On Mar 17 2012, Andres Mejia wrote: Here's my first try at writing better documentation about installing extra multimedia codecs. Takes away the need for installing the deb line to apt. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs Wow, this is really, really well done. Good job, thank you! ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Am 18.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Rogério Brito: On Mar 17 2012, Andres Mejia wrote: Here's my first try at writing better documentation about installing extra multimedia codecs. Takes away the need for installing the deb line to apt. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs Wow, this is really, really well done. Good job, thank you! I agree. Thank you very much for this really great clarification! -- regards, Reinhard ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion
Hi there. On Mar 17 2012, Andres Mejia wrote: Here's my first try at writing better documentation about installing extra multimedia codecs. Takes away the need for installing the deb line to apt. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs Could a brief paragraph be added to tell the users why they might want to use the *-extra-* packages? It is not really clear, because: * the *-extra-* packages are in main. * the long descriptions don't contain anything that I can see (e.g., looking at libavcodec-extra-53). Also, it would be good to explain why (in terms of codecs, not regarding packaging conflicts or whatever :)) a user might want to grab a package from Christian's repository and not from Debian. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFC http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/ DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
Re: Debian Multimedia (Unofficial) Promotion
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Chris S. cs.swen...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As a new Debian user, I believe I read the following document about multimedia codes: http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs However, as noted on the following two pages, Debian does not appear to approve of www.debian-multimedia.org: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#Common_issues http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=70719f=13 So why would the first page about codecs instruct users to add the www.debian-multimedia.org repository? Shouldn't this be avoided? Shouldn't Debian communicate the contrary on all pages? I just finished downgrading all of the packages that I had linked to debian-multimedia.org, and it was a painful and slow process. Not something I would wish on anyone. It started because I was innocently trying to install VLC and some other video software, and I ran into package conflicts with GNOME and several other packages. So could we update the first link and remove the reference debian-multimedia.org? That would save newbie users like me from the pain of having to figure out why an innocent package in Stable conflicts with the entire GUI of the OS. Thank you for considering my input. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9kHX0ACgkQIZkx3dzEh22z5gCggbYg9XKnzGfmz1BydAbd/7pb aWUAoIDpXrvkvvm8a97odkUcjseHTXWg =MMvb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f641d7f.9040...@gmail.com Here's my first try at writing better documentation about installing extra multimedia codecs. Takes away the need for installing the deb line to apt. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs -- ~ Andres ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers