What about VLC? On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Please note that I don't want to discuss all the applications of the > seed, but show some problems with the choice for the video player. > > There is currently 2 problems : > - SMplayer brings unnecessary depends on QT packages (near 20 Mb). If > it's only to bring a better GUI for Mplayer, there is gnome-mplayer > which should achieve this goal. If nobody complain, I'll replace > smplayer by gnome-player in the seed. > > - Mplayer depends on problematic packages (like LAME which have patents > issues). It means that Mplayer can't be shipped on a ISO, because it's > illegal in some countries. > The ideal solution is to find a small GTK+ video player, with Gstreamer > support, which allow installing problematic packages after the initial > installation. Unfortunately, I can't find any :( > A temporary solution is to put mplayer to recommends packages, instead > of a depends. In this case, lubuntu-desktop could be installed without > mplayer. > I plan to move mplayer to recommends if no better solution is found. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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