[MPlayer-dev-eng] license of the w32codecs ?

[Tom Lees]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 15:30, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +0000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > I think a script like that would be very helpful, specially since the popular 
> > Linux distributions don't want to put mplayer into their distribution due to 
> > fear from MS, so a script which can grab and install those codecs would be a 
> > bless..

Well, here's a perl script which uses the MS web interface to get codecs
by parsing codecs.conf. There are quite a few codecs it doesn't find,
but it gets quite a few.

You need cabextract and libwww-perl for it to work.

Tom Lees

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