Real Video, Helix, realplayer questions

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Rudolf Petzolt <petzolt at online.no> writes:

> xine works.

Thanks for that, even 3 months after I asked, but the xine site refers
me to mplayer site for codecs, where they seem to care so little for
legal issues to bother mentioning any (except GPL, of course).  It's
not at all clear where the binary-only stuff is coming from or under
what licenses, if any.

Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that I will not be viewing video
over the Internet in future.  Another reason being the indemnity
clauses now in the licenses of Real Networks, Comcast ISP, and (soon)
Quest ISP, which will cause me to return to dial-up soon.