On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:21:51 +0200 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:19 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Are you using the MPlayer / plugins from debian-multimedia.org with the > > binary codecs from the MPlayer website? As I've said these work > > flawlessly for me on the BBC website whether is windows media or real > > media, audio or video. I really haven't had any problems and I'm using > > AMD64 Debian. > > There's no need for the non-free binary codecs to play the Real audio > streams from BBC. That format have been successfully reverse > engineered. > > I'm sure your intentions are good, but I wish we would stop this > business of blindly suggesting everyone install the w32codecs. > > -- > Cheers, > Sven Arvidsson > http://www.whiz.se > PGP Key ID 760BDD22 > If you'd have bothered to read my previous messages I couldn't get the real video streams on the BBC website to work without using the binary codecs. Perhaps I should have been more explicit and I did touch upon the ideological considerations at hand in using the binary codecs which are obviously non-free. I don't think that there was any need for you to be so rude. I only suggested the binary codecs as I needed to install them to view various media, I'm certainly not advocating proprietary software in general. regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
