Include MPlayer in beta?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On 2 Sep 2003, Jef Spaleta wrote:

> Steven Haigh wrote:
> 
> > Surely having out of the box support for most media file types in 
> > existance would be awesome!
> 
> And I'd imagine support for "most" media file types out of the
> box...when their isn't even going to a box set anymore(putting aside
> that minor technical impossibility for the moment)...is going to be a
> lovely little minefield of legal problems...
> At best..what you can hope for is an mplayer carcass stripped of the
> legally grey bits that make it at all interesting, if the distro
> consumes it. I really doubt your going to see support for things like
> quicktime and windows media 'out of the box'..you will still have to go
> out and get those plugins.
> 
> But if you are serious about this......feature requests go to bugzilla.
> For example:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69886

this brings up something i've been thinking about for a while --
what are the practical/technical/legal issues in bundling what most
people would *expect* to see on a desktop system?

that is, numerous windows users commonly complain about things like
missing MP3 players and the like.

so, a preliminary list of "desktop" utilities to try to match what
is available under windows:

1) MP3 player
2) MPEG player
3) DVD player
4) common plug-ins for mozilla (flash, ...)

and so on.  is there any documentation focused on this sort of
thing?

rday