Gnome 2.20: The video player offering download of a codec.

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Mittwoch, den 19.09.2007, 11:04 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Dear GNOME-Team,
> 
> on the Release Notes [1] page for the just-released Gnome 2.20 I found 
> the following paragraph:
> 
>     *Sound and Video*
>     Not all distributions like to install all multimedia codecs by
>     default, due to the need to obtain patent licenses for some codecs
>     in some countries. This means that applications can not always read
>     every file format by default. But applications such as GNOME's video
>     player, Totem, can now offer these new codecs to the user for
>     installation. This is actually implemented by your distribution,
>     which may make its own decisions about how to obtain the codecs.
>     Here's how it looks in Ubuntu: *screenshot*
> 
> 
> Now I wonder how the Totem-Maintainers are going to deal with this issue 
> in Debian.
> Please tell me your ideas!
> 
> Thank you very much.

Hi,
this is already partially dealed with. The new totem version, Rhythmbox,
Banshee, etc already support the required magic, most gstreamer plugin
packages save some information about what they can do and only
gnome-app-install needs to get this added to have it working like in
Ubuntu.
IIRC for gnome-app-install we just need it to ship a codecs database
created from the gstreamer plugin package informations.

Bye