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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GStreamer xwidget
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:55:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6hv744m.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mpP25-0003xm-9b@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:11:57 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> This is not directly concerned with Emacs, but I'm curious.
>
> According to Wikipedia, the "bad" problems of GStreamer have
> _technical_ problems; perhaps they need more work.  Do you know
> whether all the "bad" plug-ins are ziyou?

I don't know, but I was told by word-of-mouth that the GStreamer
developers do not hold the "bad" plugins to any standard, both technical
and freedom-wise.

As such, they don't guarantee that those plugins are free software.

> As for the "ugly" plug-ins, can you find for me a list of them, what
> formats they support, and what the "distribution problem" of each one
> is?  Basically, I'd like to know what the obstacles are to their use.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a precise list of obstacles, but here's a
list of formats supported by the various plugins:

  - Microsoft ASF (possibly strangled by patents?)
  - DVD subtitles (though I don't know what precisely this is)
  - dvdlpcmdec (this possibly involves breaking DRM, could be illegal
    because of that)
  - RealMedia and RealAudio (patent encumbered, possible license problems)
  - "xingmux" (I couldn't find any information on this one)

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-23  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87ee7cq2mu.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-11-19  2:51 ` GStreamer xwidget Po Lu
2021-11-19  4:01   ` T.V Raman
2021-11-19  4:21     ` Po Lu
2021-11-19  5:38   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19  5:49     ` Po Lu
2021-11-19  6:19       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19  6:37         ` Po Lu
2021-11-19  6:53           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 13:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:07             ` Po Lu
2021-11-19 13:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:33                 ` Po Lu
2021-11-19 13:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20  5:07   ` Po Lu
2021-11-20  7:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20  7:27       ` Po Lu
2021-11-21  5:19     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  6:53       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22  4:31         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-20  7:42   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-20  8:05     ` Po Lu
2021-11-20  8:16       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21  5:18         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  5:27           ` Po Lu
2021-11-22  4:31             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22  4:41               ` Po Lu
2021-11-23  6:11                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-23  7:07                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-23 20:54                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-24  0:32                       ` Po Lu
2021-11-25  5:32                         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-25  8:13                           ` Po Lu
2021-11-25 11:34                             ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-11-27  4:09                               ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01 12:30                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-01 17:53                                   ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-02  0:51                                     ` Po Lu
2021-12-02  2:47                                     ` chad
2021-11-27  4:08                             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-27  4:38                               ` Po Lu
2021-11-28  4:24                                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-28  4:42                                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-28  8:04                                     ` Yuri Khan
2021-11-28  8:16                                       ` Po Lu
2021-11-29  3:02                                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  7:31                                         ` Yuri Khan
2021-11-29  7:44                                           ` Po Lu
2021-11-29 21:12                                             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-30  1:38                                               ` Po Lu
2021-11-30  8:30                                                 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2021-11-30  9:29                                                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-30 10:30                                                     ` Yasushi SHOJI
2021-12-01  7:04                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01  7:09                                                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-30  4:09                                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  3:01                                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  3:12                                       ` Po Lu
2021-11-30  4:09                                         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-30  4:36                                           ` Po Lu
2021-12-01  7:04                                             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-23  6:11                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-23  6:55                   ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-11-24  4:28                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  6:52           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 14:45             ` Arthur Miller
2021-11-23  6:09               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22  4:31             ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01  7:07       ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01  7:31         ` Po Lu
2021-12-01  8:30         ` Alexandre Garreau

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