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  1. Re:warez? by cortana · · Score: 1 · on Automatix 'Actively Dangerous' to Ubuntu
    Feel free to show that those distributing w32codecs have permission to do so. Why don't we check its copyright file?

    This package was debianized by Christian Marillat on
    Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:31:26 +0100.

    It was downloaded from http://mp.dev.hu/homepage/dload.html

    Upstream Author: Various

    Copyright: various too. I can't quite seem to see the paragraph in there that grants anyone permission to redistribute the software.
  2. Im saddened by redog · · Score: 1 · on TV "Broadcasting" Over Wireless Networks?

    Noone mentioned Mplayer and Video-4-Linux
    You should find great helpon both the mailing lists and Mplayer is portable to windows so if your school mates are alarmed at the diffrence in Linux you can make them feel more at home.

  3. Re:Open Source, Closed Formats?! by kubla2000 · · Score: 1 · on Linux Corporate Influence: Boon or Bane?

    Sigh.

    xine

    MPlayer

    Both run quicktime, yes even with the Sorenson codec, perfectly.

  4. Not a legal problem, an attitude problem by billstewart · · Score: 4, Informative · on MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist
    The Slashdot article hints that there's a problem involving distribution of binaries, but doesn't point to anything that lets you find it.
    The Mplayer home page doesn't explain the problem - it points you at a flame-war on a mailing list, which has couple of postings about "You suck! No, YOU suck! No, YOU suck and your COMPILER is UGLY! Well, YOUR father smells of Elderberrries and your Hovercraft is full of EELS!", and while it's possible that there's some more enlightening content farther down, there's nothing to suggest that there actually will be, or that this flame war will be any more enjoyable than the last 20 years of Usenet flame wars.

    The Mplayer info page says that "MPlayer is GPL now. In the past it contained non-GPL code from the OpenDivX project, which did not allow binary redistribution. This has been removed." It doesn't actually appear to have the license, except perhaps in some hunk of code I'm not going to bother downloading now. If they say it's GPL, then they're obviously referring to the GPL, so I can distribute binaries if I want. If they've got other documentation that's more restrictive than this, well, this one's on their web page, though they probably should have provided a link to the GPL themselves.

  5. Not a legal problem, an attitude problem by billstewart · · Score: 4, Informative · on MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist
    The Slashdot article hints that there's a problem involving distribution of binaries, but doesn't point to anything that lets you find it.
    The Mplayer home page doesn't explain the problem - it points you at a flame-war on a mailing list, which has couple of postings about "You suck! No, YOU suck! No, YOU suck and your COMPILER is UGLY! Well, YOUR father smells of Elderberrries and your Hovercraft is full of EELS!", and while it's possible that there's some more enlightening content farther down, there's nothing to suggest that there actually will be, or that this flame war will be any more enjoyable than the last 20 years of Usenet flame wars.

    The Mplayer info page says that "MPlayer is GPL now. In the past it contained non-GPL code from the OpenDivX project, which did not allow binary redistribution. This has been removed." It doesn't actually appear to have the license, except perhaps in some hunk of code I'm not going to bother downloading now. If they say it's GPL, then they're obviously referring to the GPL, so I can distribute binaries if I want. If they've got other documentation that's more restrictive than this, well, this one's on their web page, though they probably should have provided a link to the GPL themselves.

  6. MPlayer links to sites with binaries... by shepd · · Score: 4, Informative · on MPlayer Licence Trouble With A Twist

    I'm not sure what, exactly, you are saying about MPlayer, considering they link to sites with binaries.

    If they had a problem with distributing binaries, why would they link to them?

    Sounds VERY fishy to me.

  7. Playing DVDs on Linux by kaltan · · Score: 1 · on Is StarOffice Ready To Take On Office?
    Windows now just exists for playing DVDs.


    Well, it's time then to consider to make the complete switch to linux : mplayer does the trick.


    I use it for all my video pleasure (DivX;-), ASF,mpeg...) and the news page mentions full DVD playback support.


    It's my number one choice, i'm not even looking for another one, never had reason to do so. They are still optimizing, and with each update, they get faster and better. It's a very active project.


    They are also working on a GUI which looks really neat and is skinnable.

  8. Re:QT Good. ASF Support = Better. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Quicktime In Linux

    MPlayer plays ASF files fine in linux.

    Although ASF format sucks IMHO. If you ask me, ASF is the dead format, not QuickTime.

  9. Re:I guess they didn't learn their lesson with DiV by tzanger · · Score: 2 · on Rent A Downloadable Movie

    Cough %$Bullshit$% a DIVx rip from dvd under the mystical 700mb cd limit or thereabouts for a 2 hour flick has more artifacts than King Tut's Funeral Chamber.

    Without postprocessing, you're 100% correct. I use mplayer with the opendivx libraries. On a dual celeron 466 and no postprocessing, it is what I would consider the digital equivalent to an EP recording of a copy. However with the postprocessing set to its highest level (4 for DIVx) it is wonderful. Of course, my system isn't good enough to handle this so the audio gets out of sync with the video very quickly. :-)

    System: Abit BP6 (Dual Celeron 466), 256M RAM, GeForce2MX-400 (32M). Yes this is in fullscreen under X 4.0.3 with the latest nVidia drivers (1251 I believe). The movie: Varsity Blues. Filesize: 629441536.