Installing multimedia in Fedora - can openSUSE learn from this ?

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#21

And choice is what FOSS is all about. :wink:

#22

Oops - wrong thread.

#23

Since my Original Post (OP) I note we have a couple of interesting scripts on openSUSE put together by community members:

  1. MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed by RedDwarf
  2. Script for unattended setup/remove Multimedia packages ā€“ Any Version?[/ol]
    Iā€™ve only tried the first, and not the second.
#24

Should any of these be moved/copied to the Wiki?

#25

Greetings all,

Reading this thread, and being a very new openSuse user, I get the feeling that here is again the lack of direction for openSuse coming through (which I have read about in some articles, and even had some discussions on with some other openSuse users on IRC).

I understand the reasoning that distroā€™s do not want to include codecs with the releases but I cannot fathom why adding them afterwards shouldnā€™t be made as painless as possibleā€¦ I donā€™t have to install and configure a desktop environment from scratchā€¦ I donā€™t have to fiddle with setting up a mouse so I am not sure why I should struggle with multimedia in this day and age.

I am a very big fan of doing ā€œapt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasā€ from terminal for Ubuntu, just because right after I am pretty sure all media will work, but even this is not that helpful for a new user, and I can fully understand the appeal of distroā€™s like Mint etc.

I make this post not just to give my opinion but to learn from others why I may be mistaken thinking what I do and welcome anybody that can shed more clarity on the inner reasoning of openSuse.

Regards
Neil

#26

Follow this and you should be good
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide

Itā€™s all to do with Laws and Countries. Codswallop if you ask meā€¦

#27

Hi,

Thanks for the link, I actually already used a 1-click install this morning to get my multimedia fix (it didnā€™t work without dependency errors so in my ignorance I just kept including extra files till the script was satisfied)ā€¦ my concern/question/confusion is the hesitance to make installing these codecs easy (I know why they arenā€™t shipped by default)ā€¦ like the OP asked, does Fedora have the right idea with autoten, or is 1-click the wayā€¦ some of the posters in this thread is heavily against making it easy, something I am not sure why, and would like to knowā€¦?

Regards
Neil

#28

We want it to be easy, but I agree, compared to Ubuntuā€™s Restricted Extras, itā€™s not
I wrote the guide I quoted you and I use it myself
Autoten, I was not so impressed with, but it basically works.

Folks here are not against making it easy. Itā€™s just that in place legislation requires we jump a few hoops. Else Novell could be on tricky ground.