[arch-general] What about codecs?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:31 -0400, 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.
>
> Don't mplayer and xine use these codecs still? Or is everything in the
> codecs package handled by ffmpeg nowadays?

I think they try ffmpeg first, and then try to look for binary codecs
if they exist. I know I haven't had the codecs package installed in a
LONG time and have no problems with flv, mkv, ogv, divx, and anything
else I could think of.