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



 On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 

> 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... 


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