[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 58, Issue 53

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

I think 3826 is not relevant to the current problem.

A release such as 13.2.0. knows what codecs are installed and can set 
the mime-types accordingly.

There is no reason that Sugar should not support webm. It is designed to 
offer an fully open alternative to mp4 (h.264 ..). I believe this 
requires only libav.

The remaining problem is the 'ugly' codecs (mp3, m4a). These will have 
to be installed by deployments or individual users just as they are for 
Firefox and Ubuntu.

One option would be to follow the lead of these distributions and 
provide a version of Jukebox that has the necessary codecs. Otherwise, 
Sugar could provide instructions for deployments and users on how to 
install the codecs.

Tony


On 08/24/2013 10:04 AM, sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:04:28 +0200
> From: Daniel Narvaez<dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> To: Gonzalo Odiard<gonzalo at laptop.org>
> Cc: Sugar-dev Devel<sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>,	Jerry Vonau
> 	<jvonau at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 58, Issue 47
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> On Friday, 23 August 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> >
>> >No. The list in the activity.info file is static.
>> >No way yet to know what plugins you have installed in your machine.
>> >
> We have a ticket open about it
>
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3826
>
> I researched a bit what it would take to solve this and it seems that,
> unless something changed recently, there is no good way to do it yet
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540#c83
>
> I tend to think we should just support audio/* video/* or something like
> that, and have the activity print an error if the codec is not available.