On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jan de Groot <j...@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 <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?
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.
