Sidux is very handy, you can have either a LiveCD working away, not touching the hard drive or do an installation of it in about 5 minutes, but there is a small downside.
It is not a big problem, but for a number of strange reasons getting information on codecs and multimedia is harder than it needs to be.
For example, if you were using Ripper X and wanted to extract to MP3 that wouldn’t be possible without the presence of the correct codec.
Here’s the solution:
1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
2. and the line:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main, close the editor (I use nano) and return to the command line.
3. using a browser add in or update the debian-multimedia-keyring package, see the FAQ, first question.
4. execute from root:
apt-get update
5. assuming that goes well, next do:
apt-get install lame
6. follow the prompts, when the installation has finished successfully, bring up Ripper x
7. click on Config, next MP3, look at the Encoder plugin, select Lame MP3 Encoder.
8. It works!
Also see the sidux-Underground Forum for helpful tips.
There’s also a really easy to use script called Exoodles that does all this multimedia stuff automatically, including updating the sources files and all that.
Exoodles multimedia installtion
Comment by JerryR — March 13, 2009 1:51 am @ 1:51 am
thanks for that, JerryR.
Comment by modernityblog — March 13, 2009 2:43 am @ 2:43 am
thanks for the link to get MP3 working!
Comment by michael — April 7, 2009 2:48 pm @ 2:48 pm