Include MPlayer in beta?

[Eric Wood]

Jef Spaleta wrote: (slipping into the thread here)
> make it a point to encourage the adoption of open standards even in
multimedia codecs.

Jef Spaleta hit the nail on the head.  The desktop should have ogg in your
face ready to play a few sample ogg tunes. Also some nice eye candy video
using an open codec.  If the equivalent applications like musicmatch,
cooledit, iTunes, movie editor/creator, dvd and tv capture card sotware,etc
were all wrapped up into a awe gazing IDE-type application,  then regular
users would realize they can click a few times and start creating (even if
it merely ripping) the content under the open codec.  Different av formats
(codecs) survive only because of the ease of the tools that create them.

Don't waste energy conforming to the patented codecs.  Present the killer
apps that makes people want to start over with their digital content.
People are willing to change.  So, will this be ready in time for 10?
hehehe

-eric wood