2012/7/22 Cody Garver <codygar...@gmail.com> > I consider using mplayer2 cheating. > ... > I know Xubuntu are and I would bet Lubuntu might be looking for a player > to use as default in their distributions. >
Distributions cannot ship mplayer2 as well as any other project that relies on ffmpeg/libav because of multiple legal issues with libavcodec. You can look up Ubuntu technical board resolution 2007-01-02 for details on the issue. A stripped-down non-multiverse version of libavcodec exists Ubuntu repos; I'm not sure if it was taken into account back in 2007, though. That libavcodec variant originates from Debian, so more recent discussions from other distros are not useful. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary
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