On Mar 13 2009, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote: > I try installing a couple of 'ugly' and 'bad' gstreamer plugin sets > and nothing works. I decided to quickly install everything gstream* > and find that YouTube now plays (crap performance mind you but it does > work and that would be for another bug report).
So... which were the necesary packages for current youtube to work? > As an end-user, I can only voice the opinion that I think it is > imperative that if swfdec-mozilla wants to attempt to be a true > drop-in replacement for the official Adobe flash player, then it needs > to come with hard dependencies on all the things necessary to create a > full and uncompromising flash experience; I just cannot see how > end-users can or should be expected to figure it all out themselves. I'll try to explain myself here... As I see it, the good thing would be to have just the really needed things as dependencies, have the most usally wanted things as recommends, so that people that expect a "install and work" feature get it (I think youtube needed packages should be recommends and thus work on a normal install) and then have as suggests all the other things that could enhance swfdec experience. The problem with all this is that our packages are mostly static for at least the release time, and the web experience we are targetting is moving, thus it is a little bit difficult to achieve this. For example: the codecs that the youtube guys change from time to time as new codecs are available or used by more people. As I see it, I need help from you, the users of the program to help me fill the recommends and suggests with current good settings for a good experience on the web as we see it now, and hope that those settings will remain to give a good experience in the future stable release. So if you would be so kind to help me define this recommends and depends, I think it would be good to have simething like this: web.site.name: packages that allow swfdec to support this site We could even add a importancy index so that we can use it to know if those packages should go into recommends or depends. What do you think about this? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
