Yo,
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Meir Faraj wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 November 2000 16:10, you wrote:
> > Meir Faraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hi all ,
> > > I've saw there is an Xmms - avi (0.6a version) that plays other formats
> > > like asf , divx.;-),...
> > > it will be a good things to see xmms playing more formats....
> > >
> > > it use the libavifile library so u could made it afvaible for it with
> > > the utilitities we've spoke a month ago (About playing windows media?(And
> > > others)) .
> >
> > Last time I checked, it needed closed-source DLL's.
> but you could like I've said use windows dll's (like u already make for ttf
> font;-))
>
> and this one is justly to enable support for external proprietary codecs like
> asf.
> I think you will never have open sourced dlls or codecs for these one , u
> know why;-)
> but , it will be pleasant to use them......
No. We talked about this before. DrakFont searches for Windows fonts, on your
windows partition, that's external. To include something inside a main package
would be a different thing. There are vraious problems, see:
(1) We do open source. This is the case with say, why don't we have applixware
in the main distro, why don't we have nvidia drivers, why don't we have lucent
modem drivers ...
(2) The license probably would't allow us to do that. We sell the LM product
for money too, I'm not sure if the license says that we can do that. In any
case the license for those DLLs suck. (IMHO).
Of course providing, say, libavifile is one thing, but the DLLs is another.
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Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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