On Seg, 14 Dez 2009, Celejar wrote:
Thanks for the very detailed and clear explanation (and thanks for your work on Theora), but I'm not sure I understand why this is a hard dependency. I see why I'd definitely want this on my system, but since mplayer can be used to watch video that doesn't use this codec, shouldn't it be a mere 'recommends'?
It's a dependency because the choice to include H.264 support is done a compile-time (if there is such a choice). The library is linked to the application at build time, and the program won't even run without the .so file.
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