[MPlayer-users] Licensing of win32 codecs?

[Per Wigren]

Just an interresting question.. How many and which of the codecs in w32codecs 
does not have a native (decoding-) implementation?

// Wigren

Tuesday 19 November 2002 05:54 skrev D Richard Felker III:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:19:47PM -0800, Chris Carlen wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi:
> >
> > I'm considering using Mplayer at my company.  But I am not sure of the
> > licensing of the package w32codec.
> >
> > Are these files Ok to use in a company which must do everything by the
> > book?
>
> Some yes, some no. However chances are good that there's absolutely no
> use for them, except perhaps WMV8. The ones that are definitely not
> "ok" are the various divx3/divxaudio codecs, since they're modified
> copies of MS codecs (hacked to remove limitations MS put there). I
> think most of the rest come with Windows or can be downloaded from
> "legitimate" internet sites, but again, my advice would be to omit the
> w32codecs package entirely unless you know you need it.
>
> Rich
>
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