[MPlayer-dev-eng] --disable-risky switch ok?

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:29, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > ill put a #ifdef CONFIG_RISKY around all known patent encumbered parts of
> > libavcodec so that distributions like debian can have a libavcodec
> > package,
>
> WTF? it's totaly nonsense.
yes agree fully, but it ends the even more nonsense between debian & 
libavcodec/mplayer/... they cant claim libavcodec/mplayer is illegal anymore 
at least they have no sound argument anymore

> What will left if you disable 'risky' parts? i
> guess nothing... maybe the broken lavcdeint filter? :)
mpeg1, rawvideo/audio stuff, huffyuv, mjpeg, ogg vorbis, mp1/mp2 
yes it wont play 95% of the files but its still usefull for a small number of 
ppl

>
> > so my question is what is prefered for mplayer, just add a #define
> > CONFIG_RISKY 1 or a --disable-risky switch to configure?
>
> the former
ok

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Michael