Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

[Kevin Gordon]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, David Leeming
> <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> > 1. Is the above the right way to do it, if someone with more Fedora
> > experience than I can verify..
>
> That's exactly how I'd do it.
>
> > 2. In our narrowband countries it takes an hour and downloads a lot per
> > laptop, this is unworkable in PNG with large numbers of XOs and where the
> > bandwidth is so expensive and unreliable. Isn't there a way to do this
> > offline with a download, something we can run on a flashdrive?
>
> Install yum-utils, use yumdownloader --resolve <target packages> , you
> end up with all the rpms, so then rpm -Uvh *rpm.
>
> > 3. is the update step above necessary (it requires downloading 33MB)
>
> Yep
>
> > 4. In doing the above am I violating a ton of licenses?
>
> That's complicated. I've studied software licensing, but _I am not
> your lawyer_, this isn't legal advice, etc, etc. From my time under
> books,
>
>  Adobe Flash
>  - Not violating licenses if you do it as an end-user, if you do it as
> a distributor, you're expected to fill out a form, and get approval.
>
>  Gstreamer codecs
>  - Not violating licenses
>  - Some (most!) codecs are heavily patented with software patents,
> depending on the jurisdiction, you're in the clear, in the gray, or in
> the red.
>

I tend to also install gsreamer-plugins-bad as well as ugly. Shhh.

Mavrothal has a little script which he published up on olpcnews when 11.2.0
came out

http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.msg33465;topicseen

No warranties of course, and it does contain other installs which you may
not wish.

A nice little compendium of stuff though for when one forgets  the exact
names of things and is at another site.

KG

>
> It is safe to say it's impossible to write a useful program without
> walking over a dozen sw patents, so it's a sadly nonsensical space.
>
>
>
> m
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