RE: gnome-multimedia digest, Vol 1 #99 - 1 msg

["L. Clayton Parker" <lparker cacaphony net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess hadess net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:52 PM
> To: L. Clayton Parker
> Cc: 'Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller'; 'Aaron Buckner'; Gnome
> Multimedia Hackers
> Subject: RE: gnome-multimedia digest, Vol 1 #99 - 1 msg
> 
> Red Hat never shipped mplayer.
> 

Comes standard with RH9...

> > For instance, I was able to ugrade XMMS and get it to play 
> MP3s, but I
> > cannot get mplayer to play _anything_.
> 
> PEBCAK...
> 

Actually, no. It depends VERY much on what is in your system.

> > What is actually needed are "standard formats" that are GPL 
> licensed, rather
> > than the code to interpret them. It would be great if a 
> certain few vendors
> > would simply put their standard formats in the Public 
> Domain, without giving
> > up the rights to any of the code to read or write them. If 
> we can write a
> > better program (that doesn't infringe their patent to their 
> code) - great.
> > Maybe we can then sell the program back or to some other 
> comapny or put it
> > in the Public Domain ourseleves - our choice.
> 
> You can't license a format under the GPL, that's not what it's for. We
> need patent-free formats, and work is under way for those.

I said "standard formats in the Public Domain" not GPL...

Lee Parker
 
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