Include MPlayer in beta?

[Christopher A. Williams]

You can also get MPlayer from fedora and freshrpms with all of the
plug-ins and skins ready to go. Just need to grab it if you have already
configured apt or yum for their repositories.

Cheers,

Chris

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:05, Laur Ivan wrote:
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> Yop, it would be nice... 
> 
> ...but AFAIremember, providing a fully featured player in the distribution 
> would fall under the same (legal) issues as xmms.. Plus, when you compile 
> MPlayer, you get arch. optimisations (different code used for AMD and P4 for 
> example), which I'm not sure is feasible/doable.
> 
> Also, there's a kde wrapper (KMPlayer) somewhere in the packages..
> 
> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:04, Steven Haigh wrote:
> > I'm just compiling up Mplayer available from http://www.mplayerhq.hu -
> > according to the documentation, it should be a killer for playback of
> > all media types in *nix...
> >
> > What are the chances of this replacing kaboodle or noatun as a default
> > media player? Surely having out of the box support for most media file
> > types in existance would be awesome!
> 
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