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

Varun Acharya ganja.guru.x64 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 06:23:07 EST 2007


On Dec 18, 2007 7:14 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at 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
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