Posted By: Bryan

Posted By: RyanQuick question, is it illegal to distribute the codecs on the cd? (In the US, i'm the sexy UK so I'm okay but) and then when the user wants to play a file say "this is illegal; press install if you don't mind" and then install them from the cd? rather than it have it pull them from online?

It depends entirely on the licensing for each individual codec.

We are looking to provide legal licenses for all codecs that ship with LASnix. However there are, assuredly, going to be some codecs that we simply cannot legally provide within the US. In those cases there will need to be a very, very simple mechanism for obtaining the ability to play back those formats (either at install time or when playback is requested) for individuals in countries where it is legal and common to do so.

Maybe a fusion of the CodecBuddy and the EasyCodecInstallation stuff in Ubuntu and Fedora 8? EasyCodecInstallation would search existing repositories to find the codec, and if it is there, it will get listed for download and installation. If the codecs could not be found through EasyCodecInstallation, then CodecBuddy would search and see if Fluendo had it for GStreamer. If Fluendo has it, then display a dialog about that codec and Fluendo stuffs, just like CodecBuddy in Fedora. This way, extra codecs such as schroedinger can be pulled and installed automatically, while codecs not available in existing repositories, like Fluendo eventually having WM10 support (it probably will happen, they do have the contract to get that stuff!), will be able to be easily and intuitively installed. Of course, we might need to have a GPG key from fluendo or something to verify that its valid package or something (Hopefully Fluendo does offer RPMs or the like, chris can verify this since he bought the complete set of codecs)...

Posted By: RyanThey provide you with the actual codecs and you put them in a folder with gstreamer.

Then perhaps some scripts to find them once downloaded and automatically copy and register them in gstreamer would be a good idea. I don't know if Fluendo would go for LASnix repackaging their codecs for them, so that would have to do...

That would be cool, does Linux at the moment install every driver there is during install? Or does it see what is needed at install and then enables them? I would quite like to see if we could work with serial monkey maybe on wireless cards? Plug in Wireless card, the distro detects the wireless card and what driver you need and then if we can either fit it on the iso, grab it from the net(I know as a wireless user that I can't get on the net since I have no wireless, if I could access the net I wouldn't need wireless but never the less) or if all else fails give the user a link they can visit and then they can juust drag and drop the file they downloaded into a installer?