new mplayer builds eliminate need for win32 codecs?

[Claude Jones]

On Friday August 18 2006 1:03 am, Jeff Vian wrote:
> The correction at the bottom of that article says it all.  The support
> will be in the proprietary realplayer, not open sourced.

I tried to follow this up this morning by installing that mplayer version on 
my PCLinuxOS box which I have in my shop at the office. Unfortunately, it 
didn't show up in the updates list when I ran Synaptic. They generally 
release new packages to their 'premium' server first, which you can gain 
access to with any donation over $25 to their project - I'm actually a small 
contributor and have access, but I may not have entered the data for that 
repo in my configuration on that particular box - didn't have time to check 
it out. When I do get that version installed, I'll report results back here. 
One mail-list subscriber did post this morning that he'd installed the new 
package and that "it worked" - but no details...
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA