On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:51:57AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> i find mplayer gives better quality, plays more codecs and generally
> "just goes". it will play weird video files that my media player in
> windows barfs at. I can play 6 or more video files windowed on my
> desktop at the same time. (if i want to)
A lot of folks miss one of the most discouraging facts about mplayer.. the
authors are quite happy to completely disregard copyright law, and steal
codec information, and whatever else from whatever source they can, and
blatantly license it as GPL as if they wrote it.
Ok, it gives you a piece of software that appears to work.. but you are
supporting their actions by using it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no GPL-only bigot - I'll happily use non-free
software when needed.. but I dislike using non-free software that's being
distributed under the guise of GPL'd software.
(I use 'GPL' loosely here, I'm really meaning 'any free license')
Mike.
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