[arch-general] What about codecs?

[David C. Rankin]

Eric Bélanger wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Eric and Christos, I post back after I have kde installed and give it a go.

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