Adel ESSAFI wrote:
Well,
I think that I have chosen a bad subject for this discussion. I wanted
to focus about the multimedia aspect and that there are a big variety
software in Fedora. That may make the newbies a bit disturbed at the
beginning.
Any way, I will concentrate to contribute (me and some of my student) to
contribute in fedora. What do you think about making media player detect
the missing codecs and ask to download them automatically (install
rpmfusion and download the needed packages). I have never contributed
before. How long time do you think that such implemented function need
to be implemented.
PackageKit already implements similar functionality. It detects and
automatically installs the right codecs if it is available in the
repository. The problem is not technical. It is a legal issue. We are
not allowed to pull in patent encumbered software from other repository.
That is the same as including it by default.
Rahul