[arch-general] What about codecs?

[Thomas Bächler]

Eric Bélanger schrieb:
> 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.

At least mplayer uses them for formats it doesn't support natively (not 
too many) and you can use codecs.conf to prefer the binary codecs over 
the native ones. I think it is similar for xine(-lib) and thus for 
basically any video application in KDE or GNOME.
That said, virtually every video I have come across in the last few 
years plays fine with the codecs that are natively compiled into 
mplayer, vlc or xine.
The codecs package was important to make mplayer useful over 5 years 
ago, but not anymore.

In contrary to SuSE, all those packages are contained in our main 
repositories with all codecs enabled, so there is nothing special to do 
besides pacman'ing those packages.

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