Exactly. After all, the DivX codec is a rip of the Microsoft MPEG4v3 codec
with broken 'protection' in effect allowing any application to encode video
using the codec, not just MS media encoder. Bad move to put these in the
Mandrake distro. I have a feeling MS will come out and sue these jokers too
when they decide to release their supposed 'next generation divx'.
Mandrake should stay as far away from this as possible.
But as far as legitimate (i.e. non-divx) codecs go - why the heck not!
Cheers
Kon
> > > Meir Faraj a �crit :
> > > >
> > > > I found that Xtheater could play asf and avi(with divx) .
> > > > http://Xtheater.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > There is also a xmms-avi package which consists of a xmms plugin that
> > > reads (at least) DivX files.
> > > Maybe this must-have package should be part of Mandrake ?
> >
> > It needs some DLL and I don't know where they come from (and I don't
like
> > putting DLL's).
> >
>
> .dll are of course Windows stuff, basically how DivX works on GNU/Linux is
> just some .dll with wine. It's not a matter of whether you like it or not,
but
> these .dll are not freely distributable anyway, so, either way, you cannot
> distribute it on RPM.
