Lähettäjä: Austin English Päiväys: Vastaanottaja: The Tails public development discussion list Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] dconf-editor dropped, gedit-plugins, systemd,
w32codecs
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:36 PM, <maddonkeykong@???> wrote: > -------- Original Message --------
> From: Austin English <austinenglish@???>
> Apparently from: tails-dev-bounces@???
> To: The Tails public development discussion list <tails-dev@???>
> Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] dconf-editor dropped, gedit-plugins, systemd,w32codecs
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 20:44:40 -0600
>
>> TL;DR: I think we should ship as many codecs as we can, to allow as
>> wide of access to media as possible.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:38 AM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>> > Austin English wrote (07 Mar 2016 03:05:46 GMT) :
>> >> That said, including win32 codecs is probably worthwhile.
>
> RE: win32 codecs - I agree. So let's say we have win32 codecs installed. Can Totem handle these codecs, or do we need to install another video player?
It can, totem uses gstreamer.
> Now regardless of video player, there are a few different browser plugins available in the repos to directly handle these codecs. The problem is, you probably don't want these to load into Tor Browser.
>
> So what could be used instead? The unsafe browser or a separate profile or browser with the codecs and plugin capability?
I think wma encoded videos embedded online are probably quite rare,
and are a separate use case from supporting them with totem.
