Re: [Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-18 Thread Meir Faraj
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote: Will be this the end of the DVD? I don't care much for DVD, as long as there is that horrible "regional algorithm" (taking all legalities into account of course,) Yep but thefor those want see there DVD the OMS did it corectly (illegal) the address is :

Re: [Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-17 Thread Geoffrey Lee
Yo, On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:31:56PM -0700, Kon wrote: Exactly. After all, the DivX codec is a rip of the Microsoft MPEG4v3 codec with broken 'protection' in effect allowing any application to encode video using the codec, not just MS media encoder. Bad move to put these in the Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-17 Thread Giuseppe Ghibo'
Geoffrey Lee wrote: Well I can provide the DivX plaer wihtout the codecs, that should be legal. Maybe also a rpm with .spec file for codecs with 'NoSrc:', so to not include binaries, but to let users to build the RPM of the codecs themselves. Anyway IMHO it's just a matter of time. Now that

Re: [Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-17 Thread Meir Faraj
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: Geoffrey Lee wrote: Well I can provide the DivX plaer wihtout the codecs, that should be legal. Maybe also a rpm with .spec file for codecs with 'NoSrc:', so to not include binaries, but to let users to build the RPM of the codecs themselves. Anyway IMHO

Re: [Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-17 Thread Kon
Good idea! :-) Libavi, xtheater? XMPS seems a little on the buggy side? Cheers Kon Well I can provide the DivX plaer wihtout the codecs, that should be legal.

Re: [Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-17 Thread Geoffrey Lee
Yo, On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:05:38PM +0200, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote: Geoffrey Lee wrote: Well I can provide the DivX plaer wihtout the codecs, that should be legal. Maybe also a rpm with .spec file for codecs with 'NoSrc:', so to not include binaries, but to let users to build the

[Cooker] About *not* playing windows media?

2000-10-16 Thread Kon
Exactly. After all, the DivX codec is a rip of the Microsoft MPEG4v3 codec with broken 'protection' in effect allowing any application to encode video using the codec, not just MS media encoder. Bad move to put these in the Mandrake distro. I have a feeling MS will come out and sue these jokers