i have never been too clear about the politics and legality of win32codecs, which I assume is the package you are referring to. It seems that on my gentoo system win32codecs is a dependency for both mplayer and xine-lib, although it may be on xine-lib that divx4linux is an alternative (i'm not that good at reading the ebuild files)
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:04:41 +1300 Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- > Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 > > Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
