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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:28, L. Clayton Parker wrote:
> > -----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...

No, it doesn't. Show me where in here you see mplayer:
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

mplayer is shipped from other sources like freshrpms, or fedora...

> > > 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.

It runs fine on my RHL9 machines (all of them).

> > > 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...

No, you said "What is actually needed are "standard formats" that are
GPL licensed", at the top of the paragraph i quoted above.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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