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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 18 July 2011 13:33, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 à 13:57 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> Isn't it sufficient to install real-codecs for that ?
>

Do we have real-codecs in the distro repos?

> ( also, is there still people using real codecs nowadays ? )

No idea; you'd probably need to create a poll on the forum to find out.

> --
> Michael Scherer
>
>



-- 
Ahmad Samir