Hi,
I was just playing with Fedora 13 and found that when I try to watch any AVI file it searches all required Codecs from RPM Fusion repository and install it.
I was just wondering if this can be done on the openSUSE because what I know about Fedora is, it doesn’t customize the products and uses as it is. If someone know how to enable such Autodetecting in Totem.
Regards,
Anant
I have no doubt this has to do with the multimedia restriction policy Novell obeys to. Itt is of no use to not install the codecs for protected multimedia types during install and then doing it automaticaly when needed. One of many pages explaining the restricted multimedia policy is:
Multimedia - openSUSE Community Wiki.
Well I’m using openSuse since 11.0 and I know how to install restricted codecs but I was just wondering that if Totem can detect codecs in Fedora then why not in OpenSuse. Fedora also doesn’t include restricted multimedia formats and doesn’t install anything proprietary during install but once you add RPM Fusion Repository (like Packman in openSUSE) and then try to view any AVI file it automatically searches for needed codecs in the repositories and shows the list to install. If I run totem in openSUSE it doesnt search anything even though all the required repositories are added.
Its not comparison or cribbing for the Distro, but its a simple curiosity tha if such a nice thing can be enabled in openSUSE (Gnome).
I actually got to know that its PackageKit thats doing Automatic Mime Detect and install on Fedora, can SuSE have something similar? I think openSuSE uses PackageKit too, let me know if I’m wrong.
As you have rightly pointed out openSUSE should do something about it.
I faced the same dilema that you faced.
I too had to install and reinstall the entire gamut of gstreamers,xine,etc etc from packman and other repos
the gnome,kde one click installers here may help you ,atleast it worked for me
1-click-collection - openSUSE Community Wiki
Also if you are willing to try out new players then go in for “gnome mplayer” or “vlc”
When you install these players through YaST ,all the dirty little codecs needed by these players get installed automatically
It requires changes in the way gstreamer packages are created. Yes, probably openSUSE can have something similar… for 11.4.