CodecSupport
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Launchpad entry: none yet
Packages affected:
Summary
Ubuntu Media Center should provide a huge codec support in order to be able to play most (all!) of the existing media formats.
Implementation
Ubuntu Feisty will come with a package called ubuntu-restricted-extras which installs main non-free codecs (multiverse repository). This package should be included by default in Ubuntu Media Center.
Codecs
The following table shows the audio and video codecs that are expected to be supported by the UMC.
It is based upon the assumption that the UMC will rely upon the Elisa software, so will be using the gstreamer framework.
Audio Codecs
Codec name
Free
Proprietary
[https://shop.fluendo.com/ Commercial]
AIF
Apple Loseless
Monkey Audio
MPC
X
Xiph/Ogg Flac
X
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg_Vorbis Xiph/Ogg Vorbis]
X
MPEG-1 Layer 2 (DVD/DVB/MP2)
X
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
X
X
[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding MPEG-4/AAC (MP4)]
X
Dolby AC3
X
Microsoft WMA
X
Video Codecs
Codec name
Free
Proprietary
[https://shop.fluendo.com/ Commercial]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora Xiph/Ogg Theora]
X
[http://dirac.sourceforge.net Xiph/Ogg Dirac]
X
Microsoft WMV
X
MPEG4-AVC/H264 (MP4)
X
Xvid
X
X
DivX
X
X
Container formats
Container
Free
Proprietary
[https://shop.fluendo.com/ Commercial]
Xiph/Ogg
X
Ogm
Microsoft RIFF (WAV/AVI)
X
Microsoft ASF (WMA/WMV)
X
X
MPEG4-ISO/QT/MOV/3GP/MP4
X
Matroska (MKV)
DivX Media Format (DMF)
Packages
Here is the list of packages providing codecs:
- free:
- proprietary:
[https://shop.fluendo.com/ commercial]