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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch for Kaiman
From:       Frerich Raabe <frerichraabe () gmx ! de>
Date:       2000-08-25 11:58:24
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On Fre, 25 Aug 2000, Martin Vogt wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:34:34PM +0200, Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> > Btw, Martin Vogt has made an excellent plugin for avi/divx support
> > in aRts (available from mpeglib.sourceforge.net ), and it works
> > quite well (I've already played complete movies with it :) ). As
> > it's too late for it to be included into kdemultimedia, I'd like to
> > know if there's any way that we can make it more available to
> > users. Should we leave this task to the distributions (I don't
> > think so) ? Any idea ?
>
> I think we cannot include it, and it cannot be included in any
> distribution, because it still needs the windows dll for decoding.
> (Well, we can include it but without the dll, but its too late
> for including it now)
>
> But we have the same problem with vorbis/ogg.
> I still think that we need a new kde-multimedia-support package.
> (should include mpeglib,some cd-player software,mod-libraies,..)

Perhaps we'd consider creating a post-release KDE2 package which would 
contain everything which didn't get in place for the release but is 
worth a release, such as this lib, the Vorbis/Ogg stuff or Mosfet's 
improved theme engine?

- Frerich

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