Re: mplayer vs. xine

[Peter Backlund <peter backlund home se>]

Eric S. Raymond wrote:

[snip]


> I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there
> are things it lacks.  If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for
> everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which
> is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it
> needs to carry the following:
>
> Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
> mame and mame ROM RPMs
> RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
> Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer

I believe the philosophy of livna is to only carry things that are 
re-distributable, with regards to the author of the software. That 
excludes RealPlayer, Acrobat Reader, Java, Win32 codec dlls etc.

/Peter