Include MPlayer in beta?

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Tue Sep 2 19:41:54 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 18:05, Laur Ivan wrote:
> ...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.

MPlayer supports automatic runtime CPU detecttion, so it can be compiled
on, let's say, a P4, and run with no performance penalty on an AMD
Athlon XP.

> Also, there's a kde wrapper (KMPlayer) somewhere in the packages..

I use Kaffeine... It looks very good :-)





More information about the fedora-test-list mailing list