1-Click Install for Codecs in 10.3
September 14, 2007 around 7am (openSUSE)Since we now have the nice new 1-Click Install technology, over at openSUSE-Community.org we’re making full use of it. You can help test it right away. The Restricted_Formats/10.3 page is now up and it gives you the appropriate links to the YMPs that you can use for installation of all codecs and restricted formats.
Presuming that you are running openSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 (or newer), these links should work in Firefox, Konqueror and Galeon. Here they are:
codecs-kde.ympObligatory opening screenshot:
Note that you have the option of installing a lot more packages (kplayer, kmplayer, codeine, opera, etc) if you select the “Advanced” option there.
A few currently known issues:
- Amarok from Packman doesn’t install and gives out some errors. This is being investigated.
- No Totem package in Packman available yet; this should probably be around by the final release.
Please let me know if you have any other issues so that they can be fixed in time for the RC release next week. Enjoy 
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Great idea! I really appreciate your efforts.
Though I have to say the software-selection for GNOME seems a little ’second class’to me.
For GNOME it would be fitting to simply update GStreamer to its fully functional version from Packman for multimedia-format en-/decoding instead of installing MPlayer or Xine and whatnot. Please keep it simple.
Also Amarok certainly isn’t a GNOME-application. Having Banshee with GStreamer-plugins is enough to encode to LAME MP3, AAC, WavPack etc. If Banshee isn’t spiffy enough, rather include Exaile instead of Amarok.
> For GNOME it would be fitting to simply update GStreamer to its fully functional version from Packman for multimedia-format en-/decoding instead of installing MPlayer or Xine and whatnot. Please keep it simple.
I will add gstreamer to the codec list, certainly. Note that totem does use xine, and with libxine1 and a totem from Packman it can play _nearly_ everything.
> Also Amarok certainly isn’t a GNOME-application.
Who ever said it was? Both codec selections have the exact same stuff, they just have different default selections.
> If Banshee isn’t spiffy enough, rather include Exaile instead of Amarok.
I shall certainly add exaile to the list once Packman puts packages in there for 10.3.
Thanks
Perhaps you can group the packages to be installed by desktop architecture (if any), so it becomes easier to decide which ones to install?
BTW, with the GStreamer-packages from Packman installed you shouldn’t need totem-xine. ‘Ordinary’ totem will do.
How about PiTiVi as a video-editor/encoder that uses the GStreamer-backend?
Hi,
>Perhaps you can group the packages to be installed by desktop architecture (if any), so it becomes easier to decide which ones to install?
Why would that help? YaST should handle installing the respective package with the appropriate architecture.
>BTW, with the GStreamer-packages from Packman installed you shouldn’t need totem-xine.
Thanks for letting me know; I’ll disable libxine1 for the GNOME codec pack.
>How about PiTiVi as a video-editor/encoder that uses the GStreamer-backend?
I shall certainly add that as an option to the list, thanks
Excellent idea and a feature needed by all!
Thanks Francis!
Updated all the files now. If you can, please test
Do not install helix banshee for gnome. gstreamer010-fluendo-mp3 will make normal banshee play mp3.
gstreamer010-ffmpeg - GStreamer Streaming-Media FFmpeg Plug-In
gstreamer010-fluendo-mp3 - Fluendo GStreamer plug-in for mp3 support
gstreamer010-fluendo-mpegdemux - Fluendo GStreamer plug-in for MPEG demuxing
gstreamer010-fluendo-mpegdemux
gstreamer010-fluendo-mpegmux - Fluendo GStreamer plug-in for MPEG Transport Stream muxing
gstreamer010-fluendo-mpegmux
gstreamer010-schroedinger
It seems you’ll have to give exact version-numbers for gstreamer. Otherwise YaST package manager will install the highest version number which is the OSS-factory version. Needless to say, these don’t support restricted formats.
Or does the .ymp-format allow to force a certain repository being used for a certain package?
@Iznogood: AFAIK the ffmpeg-plugin supports MP3-playback as well, so you don’t really need the fluendo-MP3-plugin.
eet — the Packman developers should be able to take care of that. You could consider suggesting it to them in #packman or on their mailing list.
I updated the ymps again now, so please test and let me know how it goes.
Does this link into the codec install mechanism that gstreamer provides? Means do you configure gst-plugin-base with –with-install-plugins-helper and ship such a helper? That would enable apps such a totem to pull needed codecs on demand (when encoutering such a clip the first time) and on the fly (no restart of the app needed).
Its really easy - contact me if you need help.
@eet, the fluendo-MP3-plugin is legaly distributable, where the ffmpeg one is questionable.
I got all the codecs right for Linux