On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:05:11PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Acroread is broken in sid, currently. I'd love to see something that > works as well as acroread is supposed to, with a mozilla plugin, but > isn't acroread. Is xpdf still a bit gimpy or is it a suitable > replacement, now? If it is a suitable replacement, this is good news, > acroread never worked as well as advertised, even under Windows. Apparently the new version of AcroRead (5.0?) has a license too non-Free even for non-Free. The xpdf maintainer seems to be very eager to improve xpdf to the point where it can completely replace Adobe's viewer, so maybe you could send him broken documents, etc? > mplayer is a good start on a realplayer, The Playa and Windows Media > Player replacement. AFAIK, mplayer still requires realplayer to be installed to do anything with real(audio|video) streams. > It works exceptionally well. However, adding non-free codecs is > non-trivial. I wish that this package would have Using Windows DLL's (at least) seem to be as easy as dropping them in /usr/lib/win32/ and restart mplayer. But which formats still require non-Free decoders (aside from Real, of course)? > something going for it similar to how CSS is (used?) to be installed: > If you installed a dvd player, it would prompt you that if you wanted > to install decss, you'd have to run a seperate script that would wget > a custom deb and install it. Something like this should be done for > the non-free codecs that mplayer can use. I'm sure it will be, once mplayer actually makes it into Debian. There _still_ seems to be license problems, sadly... -rob
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