Medibuntu?

[bailout]

What does medibuntu add these days in terms of codecs and functionality over the 'restricted' packages in the standard repos?

[sumski]

It has some software not available in official repos, and/or with different build flags enabled:


libav-extra

  * debian/confflags:
[B]    - explicitly enable AMR-NB and AMR-WB support with
      --enable-libopencore-amrnb, --enable-libopencore-amrwb and
      --enable-version3[/B]

mplayer (2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+medibuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Merge from Ubuntu:
   [B] - put back faac support[/B]
    - recommends apport-hooks-medibuntu
    - change Maintainer, Uploaders & Vcs-* fields.

+++ w32codecs-20110131/debian/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+This package was debianized by Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> on
+Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:31:26 +0100.
+
+It was downloaded from http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/dload.html
+
+Upstream Author: Various
+
+Copyright:	Various
+	Copyright (C) 2004-2006 by The Mplayer Team for the
+	codecs-status.html file
+
+License:
+
+   These codecs were created by various companies, like Microsoft (for WMV
+   and WMA), Apple (for Quicktime), Real Networks (for RealMedia), and so
+   on.
+ 
+  [B] These companies distribute these codecs for Windows, and they haven’t[/B]
+   [B]given anybody else permission to redistribute them as part of this[/B]
+   [B]package.[/B]

These are binary codecs for use with MPlayer. They are useless for normal
Windows players (like Windows Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, ...) as
they only contain the DLLs without installer and other fancy stuff needed
to use them with common Windows players.

Put the files contained in this archive in a directory where MPlayer will find
them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ ($prefix/lib/codecs/) if
you are compiling from source, but you can change that value by passing the
'--codecsdir' option to './configure'.

If you use a prebuilt MPlayer package it will most likely be /usr/lib/codecs,
see the documentation of your package for details.

In the past /usr/local/lib/win32 or /usr/lib/win32 was the default directory,
some packages as well as a few other Unix players like xine and avifile still
use it, refer to their documentation for further details.

On Windows if you are using a prebuilt MPlayer, put the contents of this
package in the codecs folder within your main MPlayer installation folder.

I personally didn't find any lack of functionality with plain ubuntu packages(regarding packages available in Medibuntu)