mplayer vs. xine

[Warren Togami]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:00:17 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> 
>>Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>>
>>>I think libdcvss is already in livna's xine set.  Carrying
>>>flash-plugin would be a good idea, though.
>>
>>Redistribution of flash-plugin is completely illegal under Macromedia's 
>>EULA, and also and unneeded since Macromedia has given me special 
>>permission to maintain RPM packages and apt/yum/urpmi repositories for 
>>the plugin.
>>
>>http://macromedia.mplug.org
> 
> 
> It would be *much* better if the same packages could be included within a
> repository like rpm.livna.org, so the user doesn't need to maintain an
> increasing list of repositories for individual packages.
> 

Their lawyers wouldn't like this... it took me 3 months of harassing the 
company in order for them to agree to even this much.

Warren