Codecs in Fedora 9

Chris Negus cnegus at rucls.net
Tue Apr 1 15:41:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Chris Negus wrote:
> > Could someone tell me what the state of mp3 and other non-free codecs is
> > for Fedora 9? My concern is that I don't see a codeina package and I
> > (like others) am not able to play flash videos from firefox.
> 
> Well, codeina is still there. The plan is to drop the "paid" codecs and 
> only keep the gratis mp3 plugin. Refer
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2008-03-11#head-99b276cb166437476b228e7142d9607b91bc91d8
> 
> # yum info codeina

Okay, thanks. It's not on the install DVD or the live CD. So a user who
doesn't know about codeina already won't get information about mp3
support. Any possibility codeina might still make it on to those media
for Fedora 9?

-- Chris Negus 




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