On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2010/10/14 Stefan Parviainen <pafcu(a)iki.fi>:
> The main issue nowadays is probably patents. Apparently support for some
> formats can not be included without breaking some patents. Does anyone
> on this list have an idea which formats are problematic from the point
> of view of the Fedora project? Would removing support for these formats
> make it possible to include a stripped version of mplayer in the Fedora
> repositories?
Removal of "patented" codecs from mplayer renders it almost completely
useless. I'd rather to stay with rpmfusion package.
Sure, "almost". I'd rather view free/unencumbered formats using software
from the
main repos. If you need support for other formats (I don't*) then you
should use the rpmfusion version. But the question was not what "[you]'d
rather"
do, but what obstacles prevent mplayer from being included in Fedora proper.
*assuming Ogg Vorbis/Theora are considered patent-free.
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Stefan Parviainen