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

[Billy Biggs]

Romain Dolbeau (dolbeau at irisa.fr):

> Billy Biggs wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> (technical answer, so it belongs to mplayer-dev and not -legal :-)
> 
> ATM it uses libSDL that uses QuickTime. You can't display YUV on
> MacOSX without QuickTime, [...]

  So that sure sounds like a system library for this use.  Do you
understand now why you can't turn mplayer into a codec?

  -Billy