Re: [tlug] playing real video with an open source player

[ben konrath <ben@example.com>]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:01:05AM -0400, Josh Glover wrote:
> Quoth ben konrath (Mon 2004-05-03 04:12:52AM -0400):
> 
> > I'm trying to find an open source real video player for linux. My
> > school, the University of Toronto, is having an open source / free
> > software conference and are only putting the archives up in .mov, .rm
> > and .wmv formats. I asked them why they weren't using any open source
> > codecs and they told me that real video was open source.
> 
> IAWG,[1] but you can at least use an Open Source program to play these
> nasty closed-source formats: mplayer.[2]

I thought that you have to get the windows .dlls to play these formats
with mplayer. I guess I'm kind of against this because the conference is
specifically about open source _and_ free software. 

This isn't the only nasty thing thing they're doing. They are also
planning on charging for the archives. It's so silly, they have Eben
Moglen (FSF lawyer) speaking about keeping ideas free, yet they don't
want to allow people access to any of these ideas.

Hopefully I can change their minds.

Thanks again.

Ben