Yo,
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:31:56PM -0700, Kon wrote:
> 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.
>
Well I can provide the DivX plaer wihtout the codecs, that should be legal.
> 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.
>
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