Suggestion: add Ogg DirectShow codecs to kdewin-installer as an external package

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Sat Aug 9 23:53:57 CEST 2008


Kevin Kofler schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> wouldn't it make sense to add the Ogg DirectShow codecs from 
> http://www.xiph.org/dshow/ to the kdewin-installer's config.txt (as an 
> external/third-party package with its own installer just like the Platform 
> SDK and some other stuff)? Most sounds shipped with KDE are Ogg Vorbis files 
> (and rightly so because using patent-encumbered formats would make several 
> GNU/Linux distributions unhappy), so they won't play without those codecs.
>   
Thanks for this pointer - I have added this package to the config file 
of the 4.1.0 and further releases.

Ralf



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