[email protected] wrote: > How about mplayer? Why is that not included? I think that the excuse > that it can use binary codecs, and that they provide them on their > website is a rather weak excuse to not include it. Mplayer has been > included in the Debian repos for quite sometime now and I consider it to > be the best video player around for GNU/Linux, certainly beats VLC in > performance.
Current FSF position seems to be that we list VLC but not mplayer in directory.fsf.org. The reason we do not list mplayer are below (from Kelly, our directory maintainer); this rejection was verified by rms on 10/24/2008. So someone may want to look to see if anything has changed since then. There are the parts of the README that invite the user to download binaries. "MPlayer can play most standard video formats out of the box and almost all others with the help of external codecs." "The GUI needs at least one skin and codec packages add support for some more video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these by default, you have to download and install them separately." "MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats. For a few formats no native decoder exists and external binary codecs are required to handle them, for example newer RealVideo variants and a variety of uncommon formats. This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of formats. Please note that binary codecs only work on the processor architecture they were compiled for." -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
