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Possible to install with only free codecs?

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Murrquan:
Hellos! I am considering switching my Sansa e250 over to Rockbox, in order to use it with Linux. One thing concerns me, however; the inclusion of non-free (MPEG, etc.) codecs in the default Rockbox install. I try to use only free codecs in my Linux installs, or to at least get a license to use the non-free codecs.

Is there any way to do a customized Rockbox install that doesn't include things other than Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, FLAC and such? Or, failing that, can I remove the non-free components somehow? If anyone can answer such an odd question, many thanks >.>

Llorean:
There's a folder with all the codecs, just delete the ones you don't want.

nls:
You can delete any codecs you like from the codecs dir inside .rockbox, to only have ogg/vorbis and flac you just keep vorbis.codec and flac.codec. But i guess a few others should be fine too.

meh, llorean was faster...

JdGordon:
well its not actually as simple as that... to do it properly you really need to remove some lines in apps/filetypes.c and then recompile, otherwise your "non free" codec files will still show up as supported filetypes (and so will get added to playlists automatically)

Llorean:
If he's not going to have files in the unsupported formats on the device, though, this quirk won't affect him anyway.

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