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Re: Mplayer and SMplayer problems

 

2009/9/16 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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