[arch-general] What about codecs?

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas <nouskas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>:
>>        In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories (packman &
>> videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just
>> build from vlc?
>
> # pacman -S codecs
>

None of the A/V apps in Arch (at least in extra repo) use the codecs
so installing the codecs package might have no effect. Most popular
video formats are handled well by ffmpeg. I would suggest to post back
if you have problems playing a specific video format.