Hello, mplayer is in rpmfusion while its front-end kmplayer is in F11 repo ... what is the sense? In F12 beta it seems the same thing. Any particular reason for not having mplayer in Fedora itself? It seems not due to license, as on its home page:
MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Also, this for rpmfusion mantainers or Fedora if mplayer will be included: as libvdpau is now in fedora, could mplayer be directly compiled for its support so that we happy users of nvidia cards have no need to recompile an own version of mplayer? In F11 with "mplayer -vo help" I cannot see it....
Thanks in advance, Gianluca
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:00:41AM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
Hello, mplayer is in rpmfusion while its front-end kmplayer is in F11 repo ... what is the sense? In F12 beta it seems the same thing. Any particular reason for not having mplayer in Fedora itself? It seems not due to license, as on its home page:
MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Also, this for rpmfusion mantainers or Fedora if mplayer will be included: as libvdpau is now in fedora, could mplayer be directly compiled for its support so that we happy users of nvidia cards have no need to recompile an own version of mplayer? In F11 with "mplayer -vo help" I cannot see it....
RPMFusion maintainers can be reached more easily on the RPMFusion mailing lists. I happen to be the maintainer of MPlayer package, so I'll answer here, too. I'm aware of all the issues, but I don't have enough time to take care of them in a timely manner. If you (or anyone else) would like to offer help co-maintaining, that'd be very welcome.
Regards,
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:51 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:00:41AM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
Hello, mplayer is in rpmfusion while its front-end kmplayer is in F11 repo ... what is the sense? In F12 beta it seems the same thing. Any particular reason for not having mplayer in Fedora itself? It seems not due to license, as on its home page:
MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Also, this for rpmfusion mantainers or Fedora if mplayer will be included: as libvdpau is now in fedora, could mplayer be directly compiled for its support so that we happy users of nvidia cards have no need to recompile an own version of mplayer? In F11 with "mplayer -vo help" I cannot see it....
RPMFusion maintainers can be reached more easily on the RPMFusion mailing lists. I happen to be the maintainer of MPlayer package, so I'll answer here, too. I'm aware of all the issues, but I don't have enough time to take care of them in a timely manner. If you (or anyone else) would like to offer help co-maintaining, that'd be very welcome.
I did send you a patch to enable vdpau support. I can join as co-maintainer and push it myself if you don't have time to do that.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:38:30AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:51 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:00:41AM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
Hello, mplayer is in rpmfusion while its front-end kmplayer is in F11 repo ... what is the sense? In F12 beta it seems the same thing. Any particular reason for not having mplayer in Fedora itself? It seems not due to license, as on its home page:
MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Also, this for rpmfusion mantainers or Fedora if mplayer will be included: as libvdpau is now in fedora, could mplayer be directly compiled for its support so that we happy users of nvidia cards have no need to recompile an own version of mplayer? In F11 with "mplayer -vo help" I cannot see it....
RPMFusion maintainers can be reached more easily on the RPMFusion mailing lists. I happen to be the maintainer of MPlayer package, so I'll answer here, too. I'm aware of all the issues, but I don't have enough time to take care of them in a timely manner. If you (or anyone else) would like to offer help co-maintaining, that'd be very welcome.
I did send you a patch to enable vdpau support. I can join as co-maintainer and push it myself if you don't have time to do that.
Yes, please do that. Thanks.
Regards,
On 10/15/2009 01:30 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
Hello, mplayer is in rpmfusion while its front-end kmplayer is in F11 repo ... what is the sense? In F12 beta it seems the same thing. Any particular reason for not having mplayer in Fedora itself? It seems not due to license, as on its home page:
MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
It is not due to the license. It is due software patents.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents
Rahul