On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Jan de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 13:30 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> So, rant aside, I am not a phonon user, but I support removal of >> crappy software 8) > > Heh, linking each and every possible codec straight in your video player > makes it really flexible, stable and good. Don't even think about > possible licensing issues ;)
I've never had a problem with mplayer related to codec issues (most mplayer problems I've had were video driver related). Conversely, I had more issues with gstreamer (when using quodlibet, I think) than I can count. The best part is that the errors are unintelligible... Re: licensing issues. If someone is serious about ffmpeg/mplayer related licensing issues, it's fairly easy to build multiple packages. IIRC ffmpeg's configure script even has a flag to set the license mode to like "GPL only"... or something similar.
