Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xine-lib 1.1.8-2

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Dec 18, 2007 8:52 AM, Varun Acharya wrote:

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I upgraded xine-lib, and then did a 'pacman -Rd codecs' (I couldn't do it with just -R since it was still required by xine-lib.. strange since the upgraded xine-lib shouldn't be asking for codecs..possible pacman bug?)

Yes. Already fixed in git for the 3.1 release.

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Another point, i686 codec package is ~ 9MB, x86_64 is ~0.22 MB

This is expected. The codecs are binary.

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Real Media ...snip...

Personally, I don't mind if real media stuff doesn't play. I haven't seen a real media file in ages anyway, and I'm sure the "helix player" or whatever it's called will play them fine. This is acceptable to me - it is a format controlled by a third party, and if they want to make it difficult to play their videos, that's their fault - market penetration and all that fun stuff.

Thanks for testing all this, it's appretiated

The helix player doesn't play the closed real media formats, at least not real audio/video. For real media, users can use the realplayer PKGBUILD that I maintain in unsupported. It's probably better than the codecs especially with the newest real files. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.