On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:31 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas <nouskas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories (packman & > >> videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just > >> build from vlc? > > > > # pacman -S codecs > > > > None of the A/V apps in Arch (at least in extra repo) use the codecs > so installing the codecs package might have no effect. Most popular > video formats are handled well by ffmpeg. I would suggest to post back > if you have problems playing a specific video format. Don't mplayer and xine use these codecs still? Or is everything in the codecs package handled by ffmpeg nowadays?