On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:34:31PM +0200, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > I intent to package mplayer, a really cool DivX/DVD/MPEG player for > Linux. Supports loads of options like render targets, special filters, > audio synchronisation and much much more to come. > > URL: http://mplayer.sourceforge.net > > The code is released under the GPL, although I will need some advice > on the parts the player depends on. Stuff like the Win32 .DLL's to > decode DivX's and libdecss to decode DVD's. I'm not sure whether I > can package that, and/or wether I should put it in non-US for that... > I guess it uses libavifile for divx... this is allready in debian, so you do not have to care about it - if they use different code, you can still look at how the maintainer solved this. As I was browsing through their site, I was reconizing this: MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, but for now everything except the OpenDivX stuff is GPL. I downloaded it and it seems to use the GPL, but they restrict it further with the "OpenDivX license" - I'm not sure, if this legal. I suggest, you mail the debian-legal mailinglist about the "OpenDivX license". Xine is an example for DVD and DeCSS. You have to rip the DeCSS completly (since it is (not yet) allowed to opload DeCSS code). Best way is, to make it work without DeCSS (there are unencoded DVDs! Two of my three DVDs are unencoded). You got a lot of work to do. ;) Bye, Alain -- "One day, computer power will eventually outstrip demand, and OS engineers will be free to use friendly languages like LISP again.. until then, I think we're stuck with C." -- Oliver Xymoro
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