Dapper installation notes/Stuff that needs fixing

[Travis Watkins]

On 2/15/06, Dane Mutters <dmutters at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I understand that there are legal issues involved, so I'm not going to press
> the point about Ubuntu coming stock with Mplayer or Xine (and XMMS for MP3
> support), but I do think it would be appropriate to have a built-in How-To on
> how to get it (and the codecs) if it is legal where you are.  Just out of
> curiosity, does anybody know where Mplayer/Xine/XMMS/w32codecs, etc. are NOT
> legal?

w32codecs is illegal in any country that has copyright law. w32codecs
isn't a reimplementation of certain codecs, it's a straight copy of
the dll files from a windows machine.

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Travis Watkins
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