Re: [SLUG] SLE 10 is now shipping.- corrected insited and updated

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2006 - 10:51:19 EDT


On Saturday 05 August 2006 08:04, John Pugh wrote:
> > Now I got it working almost all formats I use. I got mp3, ogg and a few
> > albums with wma. But wma is not supported. Unless I use mplayer or xine.
> > But then I have to go through and figure out what changes to make to use
> > xine (which is installed). However it does not have a stable mplayer
> > available.
>
> This is a result of Novell's anal retentive stance on licensed/free
> software. Expect to see fully supported versions of a popular player that
> supports all of the flavors coming in SLED10 SP1 (so I'm told). I, too,
> have all the formats running on my SLED10 instance via mplayer, however,
> Novell will not support that at present due to legal concerns.

Which is OK. When one can get the s/w (like Amarok) and access to the various
writeups that is showing how to do it.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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