I use medibuntu because the ffmpeg (and/or mplayer) package there has amr support (sony ericsson mobile videos) - really helpful for playback of mobile videos. :-)
On 10/30/09, Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: >> 2009/10/30 Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com>: >> > ffmpeg might have support for wmv9 by now, downloading w32codecs is just >> > as illegal (and the same illigal) as downloading the fluendo codecs. >> > Copyright infringement. >> >> It depends on the country you are in, AFAIR. >> How come Medibuntu is not afraid to host it? > > AFAIK There are no countries where w32codecs is legal (IANAL!), this > isn't like liblame where it's down to patents or libdvdcss2 where it's > down to the DMCA/EUCD. The w32codecs package contains dlls from other > locations and without the proper licensing from the authors of those > dlls. > > It's interesting how all the different legalities of different problems > with various codecs kind of smush together in the community > consciousness. > > Martin, > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- Sent from my mobile device -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
