Nice to have FSF staff in Trisquel mailing lists :D Thank you for your help ;)
El dc 30 de 12 de 2009 a les 07:20 -0500, en/na Daniel Clark va escriure: > [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." > -- Aitor Ruano Miralles <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
