Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] Re: Mplayer-plugin on IBM Linux site -- RealPlayer?

[Kevin D. <kde...@ya...>]

Benjamin,

Source packages and RPMs for Fedora Core 1 are done by me, because that is 
what I use. Other releases are done by people that help me out. 

Kevin

On Monday 16 February 2004 12:11 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Kevin:
>
> Thanks so much for fine explanation. Just one question concerning the Red
> Hat RPM: How long after you release a new version does the RPM appear? Or
> is the official release in essence a binary and RPM release?
>
> Benjamin
>
> On 02/16/2004 12:44 pm, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> > Benjamin,
> >
> > Reasons for using mplayerplug-in over RealPlayer.
> >
> > Well there are a couple I can think of off hand, I'm sure there are more.
> > 1. No need to install propritory software if you don't want to
> > 2. Some people don't want to view RealPlayers user interface (like me)
> > 3. RealPlayer does not work on Solaris, PowerPC etc,
> > mplayerplug-in/mplayer does
> >
> > As for the next release of mplayerplug-in it is probably going to be in a
> > week or so. The fixes aren't major enough to go through all the release
> > work.
> >
> > You should be able to get the fixes from CVS in a few hours if you need
> > them quickly, but obviously there are not going to be RPMs.
> >
> > Kevin