[MPlayer-dev-eng] Distro's packaging half-broken MPlayer again

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:47:23AM +0000, Compn wrote:
> there has been some chat on irc about this...
> 
> ubuntu packages missing mp3lib support
> and not removing the audiocodec mp3 from codecs.conf to quiet this error.
> 
> ffmp3 is still included however, which seems like it goes against
> ubuntu rules. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> 
> [20:48] <hope13> MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> [20:49] <hope13> Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available.
> 
> there is a bugreport on the ubuntu tracker for it:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/62639

Would you please tell them that if they want to "avoid patents" they
need to remove everything from MPlayer except PCM and RAWRGB video. :)
That _includes_ vorbis and theora.

Rich