For what I know, MPlayer can make use of the *.dll codecs files directly, and support a big bunch of formats. That's what's provided in the mplayer-codecs spec file actually. This could be even harder to accept from a distribution's point of view.
Cheers, -Alfred Andras Barna wrote: > "the player" contains for example mp3 "codec" by default, mplayer uses > ffmpeg libs which has a lot of codecs, from mp3 to windows stuff (on > the site there a essential-codecs pacakge, it includes some quick > time, windows thingys, but it's outdated, i mean ffmpeg does a lot of > them), that's why i asked, so imho it must build with --disable-alot, > so if *we* are disabling all "non legal" stuff, what remains? ogg ? > and wave ?:) > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Irene Huang <Irene.Huang at sun.com> wrote: > >> My understanding is that it's "encumbered" because of the issues with >> the plugins/codecs. Not the Player itself. >> >> --Irene >> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:02 +0300, Andras Barna wrote: >> >>> mplayer is "encumbered" dont know if it can be added, at least not >>> "full featured" >>> gman, ? >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Mario Goebbels <me at tomservo.cc> wrote: >>> >>>>> Just yesterday I created a rather random poll for what things they'd >>>>> like to see in the package repository - >>>>> >>>>> http://forums.opensolaris.com/forum.jspa?forumID=6 >>>>> >>>>> Go vote! >>>>> >>>> Voted MPlayer, since multimedia's important to regular users. Would have >>>> been happier if there were a completish set of gstreamer codecs as >>>> option. To get things like Songbird, Totem and its Mozilla plugin >>>> working out of the box with most stuff. >>>> >>>> -mg >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > >
