On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 13:30 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
So, rant aside, I am not a phonon user, but I support removal of crappy software 8)
Heh, linking each and every possible codec straight in your video player makes it really flexible, stable and good. Don't even think about possible licensing issues ;)
I've never had a problem with mplayer related to codec issues (most mplayer problems I've had were video driver related). Conversely, I had more issues with gstreamer (when using quodlibet, I think) than I can count. The best part is that the errors are unintelligible... Re: licensing issues. If someone is serious about ffmpeg/mplayer related licensing issues, it's fairly easy to build multiple packages. IIRC ffmpeg's configure script even has a flag to set the license mode to like "GPL only"... or something similar.