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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 23:58 +0300, Leonid Priven wrote: > Oded Arbel wrote: > > > I remember that at the time, there were several RPMs that provided the > > windows video codec DLLs for RedHat/Fedora/whatever users (that are > > distributed from the MPlayer web site). > > ... > > Was there some sort of take-down notice attack by Microsoft on 3rd party > > repos or is there a better explanation for this sudden lack of copyright > > infringing packages ? > > > I think it's lack of people who maintain them. > You can find pretty reliable RPMs of Win32 codecs and mplayer at: > http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/ > (MPlayer's download page points there) Problem - the mplayer-codecs package from that site is codecs only for mplayer. The win32-codecs package puts codecs in /usr/lib/win32 where xine can get at them as well. -- Oded ::.. "Never miss an opportunity to throw away code." -- Guillaume Laurent --=-oXWuPHY5dG93jRt/4250 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 23:58 +0300, Leonid Priven wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Oded Arbel wrote:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> I remember that at the time, there were several RPMs that provided the</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> windows video codec DLLs for RedHat/Fedora/whatever users (that are</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> distributed from the MPlayer web site). </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> ...</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> Was there some sort of take-down notice attack by Microsoft on 3rd party</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> repos or is there a better explanation for this sudden lack of copyright</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> infringing packages ?</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I think it's lack of people who maintain them.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">You can find pretty reliable RPMs of Win32 codecs and mplayer at:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/";>http://rpm.greysector.net/mplayer/</A></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">(MPlayer's download page points there)</FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Problem - the mplayer-codecs package from that site is codecs only for mplayer. The win32-codecs package puts codecs in /usr/lib/win32 where xine can get at them as well.<BR> <BR> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- <PRE> Oded </PRE> ::..<BR> "Never miss an opportunity to throw away code."<BR> -- Guillaume Laurent<BR> <BR> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> --=-oXWuPHY5dG93jRt/4250-- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
