Re: ITP: mplayer - DivX/DVD/MPeg Player for Linux
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:07:46AM +0200, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote:
> 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...
>
It does not "depend" on it, it just uses those dll's to play
video formats it has no native libraries for.
So I guess it can well go into main, and I suggest to coordinate the
effort with avifile maintainer about the location of those dll's.
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