On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > Please not that we cannot ship some multimedia things like libav due > to patent issues as a result of which apps like vlc cannot be shipped > ( and by extension, same thing goes for chromium though I am not > entirely sure about that, maybe someone can offer a better explanation > of why we can't ship chromium as the default ). > just to be clear. vlc features a plugin system, there is no hard dep on libav, there is not even one on libasound or qt for that matter. the ubuntu packaging is simply done in a way that all demuxing/decoding/video output plugins are put in one package. so, while a lot of the codec support comes from libav for a default distribution it is not required (AFAIR vlc natively supports everything we by default care about - vorbis, flac, theora). HS
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