Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing the 'codecs' package

On Dec 18, 2007 7:14 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:

For instance, the wm*.dll codecs in there have odd redistribution rules, and IIRC correctly, you need to fill out one of these: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/licensing/agreements.aspx to redistribute these in binary format.

This is news to me, and is a good enough reason to banish codecs to unsupported. Anyway I'm evaluating the new xine-lib from testing and I'll let you know how it tests out with a large bunch of movie types