View Full Version : Someone from Europe, tell me... WTF????
oddabe19
March 28th, 2005, 04:55 AM
So i goto MPlayer's homepage today, and was greeted with this:
http://mplayer.dev.hu/homepage/
Someone tell me, WTF is going on. :-k
kleeman
March 28th, 2005, 04:59 AM
They are making a point about software patents which are being considered by the EU commision etc at present.
telmo
March 28th, 2005, 06:02 AM
I never liked their player anyway. 8-[
poofyhairguy
March 28th, 2005, 06:04 AM
So i goto MPlayer's homepage today, and was greeted with this:
http://mplayer.dev.hu/homepage/
Someone tell me, WTF is going on. :-k
Simple. Companies that own nothing but ones and zeros are using all the resources they can to lock up the rights to "their" intellectual property in the world's post-industrial economies.
Because they know China is up and coming, and they know China doesn't give a **** about western patents. Milk the cow to death before it dies....
I hope this doesn't happen, if only because I like playing any old media file in linux....
az
March 28th, 2005, 12:49 PM
Don't panic.
Look at the bottom of the page:
There is a link.
Enter the MPlayer homepage while it is still available.
localzuk
March 28th, 2005, 02:57 PM
I never liked their player anyway. 8-[
Why don't you like it? It has been the best player - easiest to get working - for me for a while.
It used to be terrible, but it is maturing well.
DJ_Max
March 29th, 2005, 02:54 AM
Why don't you like it? It has been the best player - easiest to get working - for me for a while.
It used to be terrible, but it is maturing well.
I think he missed the whole point of that message. :-s
adbak
March 29th, 2005, 03:28 AM
Is there any codec that is to movies/video what Ogg Vorbis is to music/audio? IOW, is there an open-source format for video?
primeirocrime
March 29th, 2005, 03:57 AM
http://www.theora.org/
from
http://www.xiph.org/
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