On this forum many people said that VLC is not free. While I was searching
FSF site I found this article regarding PlayOgg!
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/en/
Many different free software players work with Ogg. We like one called VLC
Media Player.
I'm suprised because a lot of
On this forum many people said that VLC is not free.
Could you link to that?
This is a very common question, it uses privative codecs :(
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/no-vlc-repos
both VLC and mplayer are in the trisquel repo, thus it's safe to say, they
are both free software.
VLC is completely free software. It uses patent-encumbered (but free) codecs,
which are needed to play patent-encumbered formats. There are companies such
as MPEG LA which collect patents. These are called patent trolls, and are
very harmful to free software developers.
If you are making
It must be different now. That thread was from five years ago.
Being in the reps means nothing. Human error, right? :P
That being said, yes, VLC is free software. However, some codecs it uses
might be problematic in some parts of the world. However, that is a matter
that affects ALL players. If you use free software to read patented formats,
you might
