Re: mplayer, the time has come

[A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org>]

Ken Bloom wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:46:38 +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
>  
>
> > There have been two main problems keeping mplayer out of Debian: licenses
> > and copyrights.
> >
> > Licenses:
> > the upstream code contains some code that is protected by (more or less)
> > actively enforced licenses: DeCSS code to decode encrypted dvd;
> > ffmpeg and OpenDivx code to en/decode MPEG4.
> >
> > Solution:
> > the DeCSS  is deleted from the package proposed for Debian
> >    
>
> What functionality do we lose by doing this?
>  

my packaging of mplayer will play DVDs using libdvdread3 (exactly as 
xine does)

the DeCSS code inside mplayer is (considered by the upstream authors to 
be) more optimized and faster ; but including it is troublesome, so the 
upstream mplayer allows for the deletion of it and the fallback on 
libdvdread3

a.