On 10/14/2010 07:01 AM, Stefan Parviainen wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 2010/10/14 Stefan Parviainen <pafcu(a)iki.fi>:
>
>> The main issue nowadays is probably patents. Apparently support for some
>> formats can not be included without breaking some patents. Does anyone
>> on this list have an idea which formats are problematic from the point
>> of view of the Fedora project? Would removing support for these formats
>> make it possible to include a stripped version of mplayer in the Fedora
>> repositories?
>
> Removal of "patented" codecs from mplayer renders it almost completely
> useless. I'd rather to stay with rpmfusion package.
Sure, "almost". I'd rather view free/unencumbered formats using software
from the
main repos. If you need support for other formats (I don't*) then you
should use the rpmfusion version. But the question was not what "[you]'d
rather"
do, but what obstacles prevent mplayer from being included in Fedora proper.
*assuming Ogg Vorbis/Theora are considered patent-free.
I cannot provide you a list of formats that are problematic.
The problem with mplayer is that it is structured in such a way that is
not modular, at least not in a way that we could in Fedora package
support for known safe formats, such as Ogg Vorbis/Theora, without
conflicting with an rpmfusion package that contains potentially
problematic formats.
~spot