On 19 March 2011 01:02, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: mplayer -- doesn't it come with lots of proprietary codecs (
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ ) -- seems pretty
> friendly to supporting them.

Those aren't licensed, can't be licensed and so can't ship with
devices from vendors that want to stay legal. Either way i'm not sure
why you are pushing ffmpeg so much in the MeeGo project, it's just not
going to happen at least not in the official repositories.

> Furthermore, doesn't mplayer also support hardware acceleration:
> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPlayer_FAQ#Hardware_Acceleration_Patches

I was talking about ISMD H/W acceleration and openmax, but yes mplayer
like gstreamer has vaapi, vdpau and broadcom decoding.

> Regarding codecs on MeeGo,
> http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo-Lem#Be_able_to_watch.2Fhear_common_internet_media_formats

Not sure pointing people at fedora rpm's is the best solution ;-)

-- 
Brendan Le Foll
http://www.madeo.co.uk
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