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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kde interface to mplayer
From:       Jelmer Feenstra <spark () dds ! nl>
Date:       2001-05-29 13:25:24
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On Tuesday 29 May 2001 17:53, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> And as for the legality of the codec - I think that if mplayer or aviplay
> would be "merged" into kde somehow - then we should do the same thing that
> debian did with the MS true type fonts (the package doesn't come with any
> proprietary code - it's just get them upon running, and installing them on
> the machine) - which is what actually Windows Media player does.. - thats a
> way to skip any legal problems.

Well, as far as I know, they don't have a clue themselves about how GPL 
compliant (or any other license for that matter) their program is. So, I 
would be hesitant to assume this can be included in KDE somehow. Mplayer 
works very good on my system, but I really get the impression a lot of the 
stuff is a rather big hack. Another thing is that most mplayer users don't 
care about a GUI interface for it. All they want is some OSD functionality 
that tells them if the file is playing/pauses/whatever, howfar it has 
proceeded etc. IMO this is the way to present information to the user when 
you're talking about a fullscreen app like a videoplayer.

Jelmer Feenstra

 
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