# HG changeset patch # User gabucino # Date 1020575096 0 # Node ID 6cc15e96d7099f7f5fe78cec08cd589619802390 # Parent e70070dcf72964e561f5a24b1c6e3593b0ec92d6 rpm/deb/licensing stuff removed/changed diff -r e70070dcf729 -r 6cc15e96d709 DOCS/Hungarian/faq.html --- a/DOCS/Hungarian/faq.html Sun May 05 04:46:09 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/Hungarian/faq.html Sun May 05 05:04:56 2002 +0000 @@ -111,10 +111,7 @@ Vannak rpm/deb/... csomagok az MPlayer-ből? A: Csinálhatsz magadnak .deb csomagot, lásd a dokumentációt. - nagyon ellene vagyunk az előrefordított MPlayer csomagok - használatának, mivel (jelenleg) erősen függ a fordításkor - használt opcióktól és optimalizációktól! - Előrefordított csomagokhoz az MPlayer team SEMMILYEN támogatást nem nyújt! + A homepage-ünkről letölthetők .rpm csomagok, más forrásból NE használj!   Q: diff -r e70070dcf729 -r 6cc15e96d709 DOCS/documentation.html --- a/DOCS/documentation.html Sun May 05 04:46:09 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html Sun May 05 05:04:56 2002 +0000 @@ -267,9 +267,8 @@

diff -r e70070dcf729 -r 6cc15e96d709 DOCS/faq.html --- a/DOCS/faq.html Sun May 05 04:46:09 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/faq.html Sun May 05 05:04:56 2002 +0000 @@ -156,10 +156,7 @@ Are there rpm/deb/... packages of MPlayer?
A: You can make a .deb package for yourself, check the Debian packaging section. -It's strongly discouraged to use precompiled packages -of MPlayer, since it (currently) highly depends on compile-time -options and optimizations! -Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the MPlayer team! +There are RPM packages available on our homepage, don't use other sources!   Q: diff -r e70070dcf729 -r 6cc15e96d709 DOCS/users_against_developers.html --- a/DOCS/users_against_developers.html Sun May 05 04:46:09 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/users_against_developers.html Sun May 05 05:04:56 2002 +0000 @@ -106,56 +106,6 @@

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Binary distribution of MPlayer

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Tons of users asked us about this. For example Debian users tend to say: Oh, -I can apt-get install avifile, why should I compile MPlayer ? -While this may sound reasonable, the problem lies a bit deeper than -those-fuckin-MPlayer-developers-hate-gcc-2.96-and-RedHat-and-Debian.

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Reasons: Law

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MPlayer describes the sourcecode. It contains several files with incompatible -licenses especially on the redistribution clauses. As source files, they are -allowed to coexist in a same project.

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Therefore, NEITHER BINARIES NOR BINARY PACKAGES OF MPlayer ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST SINCE -SUCH OBJECTS BREAK LICENSES. PEOPLE WHO DISTRIBUTE SUCH BINARY PACKAGES ARE -DOING ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.

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So if you know somebody who maintains a binary package then forward her/him -this text and (ask him to) contact us. What (s)he is doing is illegal and IT IS -NO LONGER MPlayer, but his/her mplayer. If it breaks, it is -his/her fault. Don't come and cry on the MPlayer mailing lists, you will -most likely be blacklisted.

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Reasons: Technical

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  • MPlayer's speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are - determined during compilation. Thus a compiled binary contains very - processor-specific code. An MPlayer binary compiled for K6 will die - on Pentiums and vice versa. This has to be workarounded by runtime - detection, which is not an easy thing to do becase it causes massive speed - decrease. If you don't believe (it was explained in details 10000 times on - mplayer-users, search the archive), solve it and send us a patch. Someone - begun work on it, but disappeared since then.
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  • MPlayer's video/audio system is not plugin based. It is compiled - into the binary, thus making the binary depend on various libraries (the - GUI depends on GTK, DivX4 depends on libdivxdecore, SDL depends on libSDL, - every SDL release contains an unique bug that has to be workarounded during - compiletime, X11 output compiles differently for X3 and X4, etc). You may - say: yes, let's make 30 versions of downloadable binaries! We won't. We - will make these stuff pluggable in the future.
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We will (at least we wish) solve 2 of these problems in the next major release: -the legal problems (we're on removing all non-GPL codes and getting others to -change license to GPL) and the runtime CPU detection. Anyway, dependency on -various libraries, versions and environment parameters will remain.

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NVidia

We don't like nvidia's binary drives, their quality, unstability,