[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usage
Billy Biggs
vektor at dumbterm.net
Mon Jan 19 13:37:57 CET 2004
Romain Dolbeau (dolbeau at irisa.fr):
> Billy Biggs wrote:
>
> > Does mplayer have to use QuickTime to display video on the screen?
> > If so, and that's all mplayer does with it, then it's a system
> > library according to the GPL and so it's exempt.
>
> (technical answer, so it belongs to mplayer-dev and not -legal :-)
>
> ATM it uses libSDL that uses QuickTime. You can't display YUV on
> MacOSX without QuickTime, [...]
So that sure sounds like a system library for this use. Do you
understand now why you can't turn mplayer into a codec?
-Billy
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