I see, I was merely talking from a packaging perspective since I saw that vlc depends on libav. Regards Rohan Garg
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Harald Sitter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
