[MPlayer-dev-eng] license of the w32codecs ?

[Felix Buenemann]

On Monday 20 May 2002 13:34, Tom Lees wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 15:30, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +0000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > > I think a script like that would be very helpful, specially since the
> > > popular Linux distributions don't want to put mplayer into their
> > > distribution due to fear from MS, so a script which can grab and
> > > install those codecs would be a bless..
>
> Well, here's a perl script which uses the MS web interface to get codecs
> by parsing codecs.conf. There are quite a few codecs it doesn't find,
> but it gets quite a few.
>
> You need cabextract and libwww-perl for it to work.
Thanx, I put the script to the TOOLS dir of cvs (and renamed to 
w32codecs_dl.pl).

>
> Tom Lees

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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