[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] (SuSE) multiple patches - please review!

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Friday 26 September 2003 19:33, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-09-26 um 18.51 schrieb Michael Niedermayer:
> > > SuSE has come to the decision of removing MPlayer from distribution :(
> >
> > do u know why?
>
> Too risky. After removing all potentially troublesome features there's
> less left than for instance in xine.
which codecs are more legal in xine then mplayer?

btw, if u remove all patented codecs then theres nothing left except 
ogg/vorbis, even mjpeg & mpeg1 are patented (yes iam ignoring rare codecs 
like msrle, cyuv and such)
if u just remove all codecs which would need some per decoder fee then ur left 
with mpeg1, mjpeg, and some old codecs like adpcm, and maybe mpeg audio layer 
1/2

-- 
Michael
level[i]= get_vlc(); i+=get_vlc();		(violates patent EP0266049)
median(mv[y-1][x], mv[y][x-1], mv[y+1][x+1]);	(violates patent #5,905,535)
buf[i]= qp - buf[i-1];				(violates patent #?)
for more examples, see http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/patent.html
stop it, see http://petition.eurolinux.org & http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en