On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:36 PM,  <maddonkeyk...@safe-mail.net> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com>
> Apparently from: tails-dev-boun...@boum.org
> To: The Tails public development discussion list <tails-dev@boum.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] dconf-editor dropped, gedit-plugins, 
> systemd,w32codecs
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 20:44:40 -0600
>
>> TL;DR: I think we should ship as many codecs as we can, to allow as
>> wide of access to media as possible.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:38 AM, intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> wrote:
>> > Austin English wrote (07 Mar 2016 03:05:46 GMT) :
>> >> That said, including win32 codecs is probably worthwhile.
>
> RE: win32 codecs - I agree. So let's say we have win32 codecs installed. Can 
> Totem handle these codecs, or do we need to install another video player?

It can, totem uses gstreamer.

> Now regardless of video player, there are a few different browser plugins 
> available in the repos to directly handle these codecs. The problem is, you 
> probably don't want these to load into Tor Browser.
>
> So what could be used instead? The unsafe browser or a separate profile or 
> browser with the codecs and plugin capability?

I think wma encoded videos embedded online are probably quite rare,
and are a separate use case from supporting them with totem.

-- 
-Austin
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