On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:41:30 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote:
mplayer does not encourage the use of proprietary codecs.
What are the facts on which you base that conclusion?
For a lot of people it is important that they can watch DVDs or listen
to their favorite radio on the computer (just
David Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Free software somehow has to interact with the real world, which -
sadly - is dominated by proprietary software and file formats. A lot of
people switched to free software after free office software became
reliable in reading M$ office files. I think
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:18:18 +1000 Tim X. wrote:
David Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Free software somehow has to interact with the real world, which -
sadly - is dominated by proprietary software and file formats. A lot of
people switched to free software after free office software
You (the GNU project) already does so with EMMS.
What is EMMS, and how does EMMS relate to mplayer?
It's an Emacs interface to various command line media players. It also
has a lot of features you would expect from a full blown GUI media
player, like playlists,
Many others aim to convince people to migrate to GNU/Linux, often by
forgetting about freedom as a goal. That may be what you are doing
here.
Free software somehow has to interact with the real world,
I am just as aware of that as you are. Where we may disagree is in
the
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:25:04 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote:
You (the GNU project) already does so with EMMS.
What is EMMS, and how does EMMS relate to mplayer?
It's an Emacs interface to various command line media players. It also
has a lot of features you would
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:25:05 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote:
You have made a series of true statements which don't relate to the
point. I think we are not talking about the same thing.
mplayer does not encourage the use of proprietary codecs.
What are the facts on which
