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[Glen Bizeau <gbizeau@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about VLC?

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please note that I don't want to discuss all the applications of the
> seed, but show some problems with the choice for the video player.
>
> There is currently 2 problems :
> - SMplayer brings unnecessary depends on QT packages (near 20 Mb). If
> it's only to bring a better GUI for Mplayer, there is gnome-mplayer
> which should achieve this goal. If nobody complain, I'll replace
> smplayer by gnome-player in the seed.
>
> - Mplayer depends on problematic packages (like LAME which have patents
> issues). It means that Mplayer can't be shipped on a ISO, because it's
> illegal in some countries.
> The ideal solution is to find a small GTK+ video player, with Gstreamer
> support, which allow installing problematic packages after the initial
> installation. Unfortunately, I can't find any :(
> A temporary solution is to put mplayer to recommends packages, instead
> of a depends. In this case, lubuntu-desktop could be installed without
> mplayer.
> I plan to move mplayer to recommends if no better solution is found.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
>
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