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Video forums for free software

Posted Apr 10, 2008 5:30 UTC (Thu) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998)
Parent article: Video forums for free software

Users of non-free operating systems are largely unaware of the video codec problems; their OS comes with a no-extra-cost video viewer that just works.

I thought the standard procedure was to download a "codec pack" (or VLC) to be able to play most videos.

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