Gnome 2.20: The video player offering download of a codec.

[Fabian Greffrath]

Dear GNOME-Team,

on the Release Notes [1] page for the just-released Gnome 2.20 I found 
the following paragraph:

    *Sound and Video*
    Not all distributions like to install all multimedia codecs by
    default, due to the need to obtain patent licenses for some codecs
    in some countries. This means that applications can not always read
    every file format by default. But applications such as GNOME's video
    player, Totem, can now offer these new codecs to the user for
    installation. This is actually implemented by your distribution,
    which may make its own decisions about how to obtain the codecs.
    Here's how it looks in Ubuntu: *screenshot*


Now I wonder how the Totem-Maintainers are going to deal with this issue 
in Debian.
Please tell me your ideas!

Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Fabian

[1] http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/

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