Mike Beattie wrote: > 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.
Of course you are missing one minor thing that "libxine" uses all the same libs that mplayer does and will use the cracked win32 codecs when available. Mplayer however no longer needs most of them as the ffmpeg library now provides Native linux support for nearly all the old win32 codecs and happens to be faster than the old cracked codecs. You'll need to use mplayer 1.0preX or higher though. Also mplayer now has it's own graphics driver allowing direct access to the graphics cards to speed up rendering. vidix now supports nvidia cards, ATI, Sis and various others. Chad
