mplayer vs. xine

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Jan 31 15:25:47 UTC 2004


Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>:
> > Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
> > mame and mame ROM RPMs
> 
> XMame is totally free and legal, isn't it ? Mame ROMS are illegal
> though, and not only in the US (this is not a software patent problem).

Fedora, and other repos, often won't carry xmame, apparently because
of some sort of guilt by association.
 
> > RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
> > Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer
> 
> How about Flash plugin and libdvdcss ?

I think libdcvss is already in livna's xine set.  Carrying
flash-plugin would be a good idea, though.
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