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by phee 3505 days ago
GStreamer is highly modular, so it makes totally sense to ship a set of plugins with subpar code, unclear patent/licensing, barely maintained in a dedicated package. They called it "bad", what do you expect?

The issue here is that distributions should offer more granularity with on demand codec installation. Does it make sense that to play an mp3 (not that sure this is the case) I get also the NSF decoder?
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chipaca 3505 days ago
This is in gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, which isn't installed by default nor pulled in by anything else AFAICT
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phee 3505 days ago
No idea, I don't use ubuntu. According to OP it's pulled by default in 12.04 and 14.04 as long as you choose to enable multimedia codecs at install time.
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