Re: opensuse-mutimedia repository?

Martin Jürgens <[email protected]> schrieb:

> Hi!
> 
> I just began to try OpenSuSE. My distribution of choice was Ubuntu
> before.
> 
> I noticed that - compared to Ubuntu - it is really hard in OpenSuSE to
> get a great multimedia experience. Ubuntu has the (more or less)
> official universe and multiverse repositories which include most
> multimedia packages + a meta package.
> 
> You just have to install the meta package and you get a nice
> multimedia experience.

You can get a multimedia.pat from me, I am using it in Jacklab for a
default selection in Yast.

> In OpenSuSE, you have to add packman or guru which is not bad. But
> those repositories also update packages which you may want to keep.
> 
> I personally want my system to consist of as much official packages as
> possible. It is not that important to me to have the latest versions.
> 
> 
> So I wanted to ask if there is something like a opensuse-multimedia
> repository, which does not contain lots of updated packaged (of
> course, libxine would have to get updated) and nice multimedia
> packages like w32codecs (?) libdvdcss (?), dvdrip, various gstreamer
> packages, lame and so on.

You should write to [email protected] to. Guru will still read
there ;)

> 
> If there is nothing similar currently, I'd like to hear some feedback
> and discuss with you guys. Maybe we can install the OpenSuSE
> buildservice on an own server and do opensuse-multimedia then?
> 
Another repo with multimedia packages?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin

Olli