What are Microsoft codecs?

[gilpel at altern.org]

> On 07/08/09 20:56, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>> Antonio wrote:
>>
>>> Totem has come a long ways and you get it whether you like it or not
>> because it meets Fedora's requirements + it does not have the ability to
>> play proprietary file formats by default, one has to add them through
>> other repositories like rpmfusion.
>>
>> To my surprise, it seems those codecs exist:
>>
>> # gst-ffmpeg
>> FFmpeg-based plug-in, contains all the basic decoders for popular
>> codecs,
>> such as DivX and WMV
>> # Pitfdll
>> Plug-ins using the Windows codec DLLs for which no free software
>> implementation exists yet.
>>
>> http://projects.gnome.org/totem/
>>
>> but I can't get them at rpmfusion,
>
> If you have totem-gstreamer installed, gstreamer installed.
> then totem will work with gstreamer as the backend.
> And you then use gstreamer*good from Fedora, (bad, ugly from rpmfusion)

Yes, but even if I didn't install gstreamer, I can see the bad and ugly
packages, but not gst-ffmpeg and Pitfdll.