Re: VLC/mplayer (Re: The Linux desktop challenge)

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 3, 2007 12:08 PM, Derek Martin <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> FWIW, I love VLC, but I find that mplayer with all the *extra* codecs 
> tends to play WMV and other proprietary codecs much more nicely. 
> Your distro may or may not have packages for the *extra* codecs. 
> Fedora/Livna does not... I had to download from the mplayer home page. 

Yes -- mplayer includes many questionable codecs, which would not be 
allowed for most legally-biding Linux distributions.  The support for 
formats is better in mplayer, but this comes at the price of 
freedom... 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." 

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