On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:34:43PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:18:50 -0400
> Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello Scott,
>
> > > in a firefox window, but you still need the "essential codecs"
> > > package from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
> > Thanks Brad, for the correction. I should have added that FreeBSD
>
> You're welcome, Scott.
>
> > ports will install other necessary components. I would think that
>
> Understood. Many *nix variants work that way, of course. However, in
> this context the word essential is a misnomer, since mplayer works
> quite happily _without_ those codecs. They're only essential in so far
> as they're required for viewing WMV, QT and other proprietary codecs.
>
> > in that list of dependencies. (On FreeBSD at least.)
>
> Not so under Mandriva, at least.
Now, in this case, I'm referring to FreeBSD's mplayerplug-in port. The
mplayer port itself doesn't install the various codecs unless specified.
However, when you choose the plugin port, which will pipe quicktime,
windows media, etc, to mplayer, then, the various codecs are listed as
dependencies. There are limitations, as you've stated, due to
legalities, and of course, it is an MS world. Even Macs have trouble
playing some things. For instance, our company designs clothes--there
was an MTV video of Alicia Keyes wearing a tshirt that we designed. The
designers, who are on Macs, were unable to view it.
(I'm digressing horribly here---this was more the fault of mtv.com for
only worrying about MS users.)
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