PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin replacing codeina

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Replying to a mail on fedora-devel-list@

On 29.09.2008 18:00, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:36 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 11:32 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> "hey, you need to set up a 3rd-party repo and/or 
>>> you can get codecs from Fluendo", then no problem.
>> No, there's not, but that's a good idea. What about something like:
>>
>> ----
>>
>> No plugins were found to play back this media type:
>>
>> You may need to enable or set up a 3rd party software source to find
>> these plugins.
>>
>> You can buy media plugins from "Fluendo Codec Store" but these will not
>> be supported by your vendor.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> The Fluendo Codec Store link could be just disabled in gconf, or patched
>> out by free software distros.
> 
> I'd rather it didn't appear at all. People can swap out the helpers if
> they want.

I didn't follow that gstreamer/codeina stuff to closely, but I suppose 
above was a hint for us. Which brings me to the point of this mail: did 
anybody track that stuff closely? What are we supposed to do to make 
life as simple as possible for our users (e.g. "to make it just work")

Cu
knurd