Yo,
> > > > And it's hard to tell whether a user has the codecs installed for a
> > > > given machine, then we would need to mount his win partition and then
> > > > manually copy it which is very troublesome, why not just give the URL
> > > > so that he can downlaod
> > >
> > > But aren't you already doing that with drakfont?
> >
> > Well yes, you snag the Windows font so that you can use it on your shiny
> > new GNU/Linux box. But I consider Drakfont a system utility, doing that
> > just for one DivX related individual package would be quite troublesome ...
> > it would mean:
> >
> It is not only for divx but for example Divx ....
> I think that codecs are also considered (in the windows world) as a system
> utility (see multimedia in the control panel) ;-)
>
> the need of commercial codecs (that you couldn't bring on the open sources
> world without war) is growing , and give at least the possibility to use
> existing comercial codecs would be a good thing .
>
>
Yes, I can see the need for them yet I support OpenSource, better htan playing
it under Windows, I guess.
Yet, I don't know if it would be a good idea for the commercial CD. It would
sound a little like bundling StarCraft on the Commerical CD to run with wine.
It is a nice idea, yet ...
>
> > Besides, it can be easily fixed by downloading some codecs ( < 1 MB) and
> > putting it into /usr/lib/win32. It's not worth the trouble to go the
> > Drakfont way IMHO.
> >
> there are also freeware (Not opensources and opensources ) codecs....
> if u will add this utility with the option of downloading codecs from
> internet I'm sure that after a small time you will see a site that will
> package free codecs and it will be a lot simplier ;-)
>
>
I just know about those .dll codecs ...
I can probably provide you with a spec file for the codecs, nothing more. I will
not (and can't) intigrate this into the distro, not even contribs, given
its license.
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