Mplayer Deps.

[David Nielsen]

fre, 20 01 2006 kl. 08:33 -0800, skrev Jesse Keating:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 11:24 -0500, CodeHeads wrote:
> > Looks like the compiler is the wrong version. Is there anyway to change
> > this??  Can I install gcc3.4 beside the current version?? Or would that
> > not work with FC5T2?? 
> 
> mplayer folks hate gcc.  More to the point they hate writing code that
> follows the rules of the language, enforced by gcc.  Fun isn't it?

What I "love" about MPlayer the most is their deep hatred of users, if
there is a bug one is instructed to compile CVS - great way to treat
testers really, if the solution to all bugs was compiling CVS my system
would be in a most interesting state now.
Regardless of this MPlayer has serious patent infrigement problems and
the design of their system makes it unsuitable for packaging with Fedora
- I would warmly recommend using Totem with Gstreamer 0.10, Fluendo is
currently beta testing plugins for the various patented formats,
although these are for pay, you will be on the right side of the law and
they will run on all common platforms (i386, x86-64 and PPC). Something
that can't really be done with the model MPlayer is taking (I believe
they run illegally obtained codec dlls from Windows via a wine wrapper).

- David
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