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RE: mplayer debs, was: Re: AVI player recommendations
>Thanks for the info. I decided to send this privately because I know that
you
>will probably get flamed for downloading a binary of this. (by the way it
is
>NOT illegal to have one just distribute them. mplayer has instructions for
>making .debs on their site so they asked for it. I couldn't care less about
>the ethics because if you visit their homepage they are a bunch of cranky
>jerks and I have heard the same about their help forums).
If you had RTFM you would have seen that the problem with downloading a
binary is that the compile checks to see what type of cpu is on your machine
and compiles features into the binary. A couple of months ago I had
downloaded a mplayer deb before I had RTFM and it was slow and cranky.
Downloaded the source and the various dev files required last night,
followed the instructions to make a deb package and badabing badaboom a
mplayer.deb compiled for my AMD K6. This one runs beautifully.
While I agree the devlopers are an arrogant lot, I fail to see how that has
anything to do with ethics. This page explains the legal and technical
issue of binaries.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary
As far as them giving instructions and including the required files for
making debs, I for one am thankful since it saved me that hassle of trying
to figure out how to do it myself.
Regards,
Michael
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 13:57, Dave W wrote:
> I too have had problems with other players, and today found mplayer debs
> here:
>
> http://www.mplayer.fr.st/
>
> I added the line on this page to my sources.list and apt-got the thing,
> and then got the codecs and put them, IIRC, under /usr/lib/win32.
> Amazingly enough, it worked for all of the (few) mpg and avi files on this
> box. I'll give it a much tougher test tonight at home. But so far I'd
> have to say this is a very smooth little player. I wish I'd discovered
> mplayer earlier.
>
> dave w
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:14:38 +0100
>
> Alexander Skwar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So sprach �Christian Vogler� am 2002-01-07 um 19:57:12 -0500 :
> > > and your point is, since there are no debs for mplayer? You've just
> >
> > Simply recompile it yourself. Besides the law issue, they also list
> > technical reasons which make sense to me.
> >
> > My point for MPlayer: it works very, very good.
> >
> > > made a very good argument in favor of xine. Not to mention the very
> > > friendly and supportive developer and user communities that don't
> > > treat their users like idiots.
> >
> > Yes, the MPlayer guys are, uhm, "difficult"... :)
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
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