[CentOS-docs] Multimedia Howto

Fri Sep 21 16:13:52 UTC 2007
Nick Sklav <sklav at teksavvy.com>

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 17:35 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > Nick Sklav wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:53 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > > > Yes, can you please explain *what* the packages you are installing there
> > > > do? Like "What is dvdcss, what is lsdvd" and so on?
> > > > 
> > > Well those packages pull deps of more packages it would be a howto on
> > > itself to documents what the packages do exactly, is this really
> > > required for this howto?
> > 
> > At least explain why you are installing those packages, I find "to
> > install all the binaries needed to have full multimedia support" a bit
> > terse. 
> 
> Meaning: Please give a short explanation of what the user is able to do
> after he followed your guide (play DVDs, play stuff from the net, and so
> on).

You have a point there ralph, i thought you wanted me to say example
LSDVD = Needed to pull information off DVD etc..

But you have a point i will modify by end of today hopefully to state
that the system will now be able to play mp3 divx xvid quicktime etc...