Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Tim X
Lucas Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You're wrong, EMMS is indeed a GNU project. >> >> It seems that EMMS is a GNU package--a separate one. >> I will look at the situation with EMMS and mplayer. > > What do you mean by "situation"? EMMS s

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Tim X
Joost Kremers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [as one poster remarked, this does indeed not seem the right place for this > discussion. i have no idea where to take it, however, so i'll just post > here. if there are suggestions for more appropriate groups, i'd be happy to > follow up there.] > Agr

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Joost Kremers
[as one poster remarked, this does indeed not seem the right place for this discussion. i have no idea where to take it, however, so i'll just post here. if there are suggestions for more appropriate groups, i'd be happy to follow up there.] Tim X wrote: > No, I'm afraid you totally missed my poin

Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread David Hansen
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:49 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: > Well, OK: mplayer supports some proprietary codecs but I don't see how > this encourage it's use. > > To encourage their use means to take steps likely to lead more people > to use them. For instance, to publicize their existen

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread David Hansen
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:35 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: > You're wrong, EMMS is indeed a GNU project. > > It seems that EMMS is a GNU package--a separate one. > I will look at the situation with EMMS and mplayer. Removing mplayer support would imply removing support for the widely used *fr

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're wrong, EMMS is indeed a GNU project. > > It seems that EMMS is a GNU package--a separate one. > I will look at the situation with EMMS and mplayer. What do you mean by "situation"? EMMS supports several command-line players; by default the

Re: keyboard-macro-timer.el

2007-07-19 Thread Richard Stallman
It occurs to me that it would be more general to repeat the next or previous command at a given interval. If what you want to repeat is a keyboard macro, then you type a command to run the keyboard macro. It is probably just as convenient, and maybe simpler too. Would you like to give that a try?

Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Richard Stallman
Well, OK: mplayer supports some proprietary codecs but I don't see how this encourage it's use. To encourage their use means to take steps likely to lead more people to use them. For instance, to publicize their existence (unless they are so well known that nearly all computer users have

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Richard Stallman
You're wrong, EMMS is indeed a GNU project. It seems that EMMS is a GNU package--a separate one. I will look at the situation with EMMS and mplayer. ___ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread carl . davidson
Shouldn't this discussion be taking place somewhere else? I thought this was a sources-only newsgroup. ___ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Joost Kremers
Tim X wrote: > David Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > While I can appreciate what your saying, I think you may be missing some of > the > subtlety of Richard's point. and perhaps you're missing some of the subtlety of david's point: if mplayer did not support non-free codecs, some (many

keyboard-macro-timer.el

2007-07-19 Thread Mathias Dahl
For your pleasure :) /Mathias ;;; keyboard-macro-timer.el --- Run last keyboard macro with a timer ;; Copyright (C) 2007 Mathias Dahl ;; ;; Version: 0.1 ;; Keywords: convenience, keyboard macros, timers ;; Author: Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Tim X
David Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 >>>

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Tim X
Joost Kremers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X wrote: >> David Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> While I can appreciate what your saying, I think you may be missing some of >> the >> subtlety of Richard's point. > > and perhaps you're missing some of the subtlety of david's point:

Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

2007-07-19 Thread Tim X
Lucas Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> P.S. I also don't think you can claim FSF supports the use of non-free >> codecs because EMMS is under the GPL. As far as I'm aware EMMS is not >> an official GNU project and therefore is not officially supported by