On Monday 16 July 2007 10:01:25 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making > available the (supposedly) patent encumbred codecs (decoders, at > least) by default, on the install CD. > > I tried to search for the Debian take on this issue (mailing list > discussion or bug report), but couldn't find the definitive > discussion. Could someone please point me to it?
Yes, Debian (Etch) can play mp3 files out of the box. This suprised me too when I first installed it because Ubuntu will not. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, I thought for sure that I would have to hunt for the codecs. Well, it turned out that it wasn't necessary with mp3 files, but it was true with other media formats, so a trip to www.debian-multimedia.org was in order. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
