Anthony J Placilla said: > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:03, Elton Woo wrote: >> Florin Andrei wrote: >> >> >On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:47, William Hooper wrote: >> > >> > >> >>This has been commented to death. Red Hat has explained their >> reasons: http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html >> >> >> >> >> > >> >That page is slightly outdated. A few things changed since then. >> > >> >Xine's "official" homepage has moved from SourceForge to: >> > >> >http://xinehq.de/ >> > >> >Xine no longer neeeds an external DVD plugin. dvdnav has been >> included in the Xine source tree. >> > >> >If you install GXine (the Gnome UI for Xine) you also get a Mozilla >> plugin, so you can play all those nifty media formats in Mozilla >> (including stuff like Real, Quicktime, Windows Media - provided that >> you enable Xine to play them, by installing the .dll's). >> > >> What *if* you don't want to install / run WINE? ... where does *that* >> leave you, then? >> >> Elton. > > You don't *need* Wine. Just the dlls that handle the codecs > see, for example, > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ > > grep for the w32codec RPMs
Gee, I would like to see the agreement they have with Real and Microsoft that lets them legally redistribute those dlls. Just another reason to not get mixed in with proprietary formats. -- William Hooper -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
