[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usage

[Shan]

Hi Billy Biggs on 01/19/2004 02:28:42 Zulu the following was relayed:

>   Does mplayer have to use QuickTime to display video on the screen?  
> If
> so, and that's all mplayer does with it, then it's a system library
> according to the GPL and so it's exempt.

It doesn't.  mplayer calls functions in LibSDL which calls functions 
used in the proprietary CoreGraphics WindowServer (aka Quartz)

Additionally mplayer can use either LibSDL or CoreAudio (aka 
NextStepSound) for sound output.

QuickTime is only used to decode proprietary audio and video in the 
same way the WINE DLL loader does under x86 UNIX builds.

Shan