On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:31 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas <nous...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin <drankina...@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?

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