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author | gabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2002-05-05 05:04:56 +0000 |
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committer | gabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2> | 2002-05-05 05:04:56 +0000 |
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diff --git a/DOCS/users_against_developers.html b/DOCS/users_against_developers.html index 9638a4d976..1566d10366 100644 --- a/DOCS/users_against_developers.html +++ b/DOCS/users_against_developers.html @@ -106,56 +106,6 @@ to suffer from your unrightful wrath?</P> </UL> </P> -<A NAME=binary><P><B><I>Binary distribution of MPlayer</I></B></P> - -<P>Tons of users asked us about this. For example Debian users tend to say: Oh, -I can <CODE>apt-get install avifile</CODE>, why should I <B>compile MPlayer</B> ? -While this may sound reasonable, the problem lies a bit deeper than -those-fuckin-MPlayer-developers-hate-gcc-2.96-and-RedHat-and-Debian.</P> - -<P>Reasons: <B>Law</B></P> - -<P><B>MPlayer</B> describes the <U>sourcecode</U>. It contains several files with incompatible -licenses especially on the redistribution clauses. As source files, they are -allowed to coexist in a same project.</P> - -<P>Therefore, <U>NEITHER BINARIES NOR BINARY PACKAGES OF <B>MPlayer</B> ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST SINCE -SUCH OBJECTS BREAK LICENSES</U>. PEOPLE WHO DISTRIBUTE SUCH BINARY PACKAGES ARE -DOING ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.</P> - -<P>So if you know somebody who maintains a binary package then forward her/him -this text and (ask him to) contact us. What (s)he is doing is illegal and IT IS -NO LONGER <B>MPlayer</B>, but <U>his/her</U> mplayer. If it breaks, it is -his/her fault. Don't come and cry on the <B>MPlayer</B> mailing lists, you will -most likely be blacklisted.</P> - -<P>Reasons: <B>Technical</B></P> - -<P> -<UL> - <LI><B>MPlayer's</B> speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are - determined during compilation. Thus a compiled binary contains very - processor-specific code. An <B>MPlayer</B> binary compiled for K6 will die - on Pentiums and vice versa. This has to be workarounded by runtime - detection, which is not an easy thing to do becase it causes massive speed - decrease. If you don't believe (it was explained in details 10000 times on - mplayer-users, search the archive), solve it and send us a patch. Someone - begun work on it, but disappeared since then.</LI> - <LI><B>MPlayer's</B> video/audio system is not plugin based. It is compiled - into the binary, thus making the binary depend on various libraries (the - GUI depends on GTK, DivX4 depends on libdivxdecore, SDL depends on libSDL, - every SDL release contains an unique bug that has to be workarounded during - compiletime, X11 output compiles differently for X3 and X4, etc). You may - say: yes, let's make 30 versions of downloadable binaries! We won't. We - will make these stuff pluggable in the future.</LI> -</UL> - -<P>We will (at least we wish) solve 2 of these problems in the next major release: -the legal problems (we're on removing all non-GPL codes and getting others to -change license to GPL) and the runtime CPU detection. Anyway, dependency on -various libraries, versions and environment parameters will remain.</P> - - <A NAME=nvidia><P><B><I>NVidia</I></B></P> <P>We don't like nvidia's binary drives, their quality, unstability, |