> > "To recommend mplayer is, in effect, to promote use of the non-free codecs" > > the same with gnash.
Gnash allows you -with no non-free software required- to view animations stored in a proprietary format, like Abiword can open a word file. Mplayer documentation encourages you to install non-free codecs as extra plugins for the program, they even distribute a pack of dll's for that. Also remember: a non-free firmware file is *not* data in a proprietary format (like a word file), it is a non-free program. So using Gnash as a comparison is misleading.
