No its not that so much as they don't include any of the repositories or dependencies for ffmpeg, gstreamer or libmad. You have to get everything yourself which is not difficult but it puts into context how much is missing since my core 2 took 50minutes to completely finish installing and compiling everything. I mean, have you ever come accross a 50min compile time for a simple codec before? Because I sure have not. The longest compiles were those for vmware and they only took 5-10mins.

Lol, now I think of it, my distribution upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 took less time than that...