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authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2003-02-19 09:40:03 +0000
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<H2><A NAME="linux">6.1 Linux</A></H2>
<P>The main development platform is Linux on x86, although MPlayer works on many
- other Linux ports.</P>
+ other Linux ports. Binary packages of MPlayer are available from several
+ sources. However, none of these packages are supported. Report problems to the
+ authors, not to us.</P>
<H3><A NAME="debian">6.1.1 Debian packaging</A></H3>
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<P>Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and
font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his
- <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>. These packages are highly
- unofficial, however, as Christian made and redistributed these packages when
- MPlayer was still not fully GPLed and
- <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">binary redistribution</A> was
- not allowed. Christian ignored requests to stop redistributing his packages,
- which caused bad blood with MPlayer developers. Binary redistribution is not
- a problem anymore, but we <B>do not support</B> these packages!</P>
+ <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>.</P>
<H3><A NAME="rpm">6.1.2 RPM packaging</A></H3>
<P>Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of
- MPlayer. They are available from his
- <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>.
- Please read the instructions there and report problems to him, not us.</P>
-
-<P>There are other RPM versions (SuSE now includes MPlayer in their official
- distribution, Mandrake packages are available from the
- <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>) of MPlayer, but none of them is
- officially supported.</P>
+ MPlayer. He has packaged the player, the GUI, fonts, skins, several drivers
+ and codecs. All of this is available from his
+ <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>.</P>
+
+<P>Mandrake RPM packages are available from the
+ <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>. SuSE includes a crippled version of
+ MPlayer in their distribution. If you want all the features you will have to
+ install from source.</P>
<H3><A NAME="arm">6.1.3 ARM</A></H3>