Include MPlayer in beta?

[Jef Spaleta]

Steven Haigh wrote:

> Surely having out of the box support for most media file types in 
> existance would be awesome!

And I'd imagine support for "most" media file types out of the
box...when their isn't even going to a box set anymore(putting aside
that minor technical impossibility for the moment)...is going to be a
lovely little minefield of legal problems...
At best..what you can hope for is an mplayer carcass stripped of the
legally grey bits that make it at all interesting, if the distro
consumes it. I really doubt your going to see support for things like
quicktime and windows media 'out of the box'..you will still have to go
out and get those plugins.

But if you are serious about this......feature requests go to bugzilla.
For example:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69886

As it stands the mplayer issue has been in deferred state for a year.
Maybe you want to take more of this discussion as to why its deferred
still to bugzilla...maybe even as follow up comments to bugtix 69886.

-jef"scans the horizon for ogg theora, and looks into his crystal ball
for ogg tarkin"spaleta


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