[MPlayer-dev-eng] helix codecs

Sun May 7 19:11:55 CEST 2006

On Wednesday, 03 May 2006 at 19:22, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> schrieb:
> > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:16:46AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > 
> > > is there any work on including helix codecs in progress ?
> > 
> > What for, we already support Real codecs or what are you referring to?
> 
> Yeah, mplayer can load real .so's, somehow (for me it didn't
> really work :(()
> 
> But I mean directly importing them as an normal library, while
> compiling. 
> 
> If someone's doing the mplayer side, I would take care of the 
> codec libraries, ie. get them in an own package w/ own headers, 
> importable via pkg-config, etc.

Wouldn't linking against non-GPL/LGPL .so's violate MPlayer's license (GPL)?

Regards,
R.

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