Comment 11 for bug 432701

Just my $0.02, but I have been unable to use Amarok since my last upgrade (months ago now) because of this. I eventually found a post somewhere suggesting I install libxine1-ffmpeg, and was about to file a (duplicate) bug to inform the community of this.

For what it's worth, I concur with Terence - if the package is in 'main', then its generally considered by the distro to be fit for general consumption. The strictest enforcers of the mantra "main == free as in liberty and beer" to my knowledge is Debian as documented at [1]_ (c.f. their section on copyright and how it affects eligibility for inclusion in main). In Debian libxine1-ffmpeg is in main [2]; when you view the package details on their site a link at the top-left shows it is built from the source package "xine-lib", if you follow this through and attempt to download you can see that the source if kept under a folder called "main" on the repo server. (If there's a clearer way to show it's in main, I'd be interested to hear it!).

Failing that, is there a way to make this more discoverable? Perhaps a dpkg-configure wizard when you install? Even just having the amarok package "Suggest" or "Recommend" libxine1-ffmpeg would have helped me discover the cause of this apparent bug (speaking purely as an ignorant user for a moment: when I install a music player I expect it to be able to play MP3!).

.. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html
.. [2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libxine1-ffmpeg