[MPlayer-G2-dev] the awakening, license changes and so on...

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
> 
> > Why do you want to get commercial users onto MPlayer ?
> > Just for the sponsoring ? 
> 
> argh. no, of course.
> i just want to "legalize" (bad word for this, but i dont know the right one)
> video playback under non-m$ systems. most of the codec/container makers
> would port/develop their stuff for non-m$ systems, if they have any
> chance, ie. any usable API they can use, like quicktike or dshow on win/mac.
> unfortunatelly they don't have any 'standard api' under unix/linux, so they
> end up either not supporting unix, or they hack together some useless
> standalone player (see realplay, bink player etc).

Hmm.

> we currently support most formats through win32 DLLs run by big hacks in
> emulators. ok, it's a working (x86-only) workaround, but not a solution.
> the soultion would be native codecs.
> and dont tell me to rev.eng. every single dll, because it's also not a
> solution...

Why not?  We are really catching up through reverse engineering.

> > I know that at least Diego and iive are reading this list (alex
> > disapears from time to time). Also Michael didnt respond.
> 
> i talked with them at irc, few days before sent this mail.
> i had to talk to at least Michael, his code is key point of whole g2.

Michael did not say anything yet and if I am not mistaken he is not
overly happy with the FFmpeg license change to LGPL.

Diego