[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron core/release mplayer-1.0-1.rc4.0.r32713.7.mga2

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 12:57:55 CEST 2011


On 18 July 2011 12:45, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 11:26:34, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>> On 18 July 2011 10:51, Samuel Verschelde
>>
>> <samuel.verschelde at pmsipilot.com> wrote:
>> > Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 10:11:32, Mageia Team a écrit :
>> >> Name        : mplayer                      Relocations: (not
>> >> relocatable) Version     : 1.0                               Vendor:
>> >> Mageia.Org Release     : 1.rc4.0.r32713.7.mga2         Build Date: Mon
>> >> Jul 18 09:51:27 2011 Install Date: (not installed)               Build
>> >> Host: ecosse Group       : Video                         Source RPM:
>> >> (none)
>> >> Size        : 8890529                          License: GPLv2
>> >> Signature   : (none)
>> >> Packager    : Mageia Team <http://www.mageia.org>
>> >> URL         : http://www.mplayerhq.hu
>> >> Summary     : Movie player for linux
>> >> Description :
>> >> MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
>> >> non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI,
>> >> VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and some
>> >> RealMedia files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.
>> >> You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, FLI, and even DivX movies too
>> >> (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). The another big
>> >> feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It
>> >> works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, but you can use
>> >> SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL), VESA (on every VESA compatible
>> >> card, even without X!), and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for
>> >> Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too! Most of them supports software or hardware
>> >> scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports
>> >> displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB
>> >> and DXR3/Hollywood+! And what about the nice big antialiased shaded
>> >> subtitles (9 supported types!!!) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian,
>> >> english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean fonts, and OSD?
>> >>
>> >> Note: If you want to play Real content, you need to have the content
>> >> of RealPlayer's Codecs directory in /usr/lib64/codecs/
>> >
>> > Is it ok to have such a path (/usr/lib64/codecs/) in a summary ?
>>
>> Yes, because it's /usr/lib64/ in the x86_64 package and /usr/lib/ in
>> the i586 one.
>>
>> (I think the email to the changelog ML resolves %_libdir/ depending on
>> the machine that generated the email, not sure though).
>>
>
> I'm not fond of descriptions changing according to the arch, it makes my life
> harder in madb where I need one description per package name (tainted packages
> are already problematic in this regard) :)
>
> Samuel
>

 Whether this causes problems for other tools or not, that bit of the
description is giving users useful info.

Maybe it can be moved to a README.urpmi, Anssi?

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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