[MPlayer-DOCS] some xml docs cleanup please

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 03:28:56PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:04:35PM +0200, Sebastian Krämer wrote:
> [...]
> > > <para>
> > > Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian packages of
> > > <application>MPlayer</application>, <application>MEncoder</application> and
> > > our bitmap fonts for a while, you can (apt-)get them from
> > > <ulink url="http://hpisi.nerim.net/">his homepage</ulink>.
> > > </para>
> > 
> > Especially since we have a new release now, what's the status with
> > Marillat's packages? I'm remembering a flame-ish thread some while ago
> > but I don't know the outcome (if there was any).
> 
> i neither know the current status, but marillats packages
> 1. link against undistributable libfaad (claims to be GPL but contains non GPL
>    clause)

Yes, but does anybody really care?

> 2. uses shared libav*, ... even though thats not recommanded

True.

> 3. depends on every obscure lib you can (or cannot) imagine [1]
> 4. i never installed marilliats mplayer package but if their quality matches
>    that of his transcode packages i tried a few days ago to test transcodes
>    deinterlacing filters then well uhm, his transcode package had random
>    filters like tomsmocomp removed (probably as theres a tiny bug in the
>    source and it didnt compile ...)

I've reviewed his packages and been in close contact with him about
these issues, but apart from being bloated (aren't all distro packages?)
and linking dynamically there are no issues with his packages anymore.

Diego