Hola,
The end draws near for the sucessful floss project MPlayer.. I just visited the site of MPlayer for downloaded the 1.0 pre7 source. Then I found the following in their website./
MPlayer is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented multimedia techniques. Also threatened are the many programs built upon MPlayer and the other free software multimedia players, like xine, VLC, avifile, gstreamer and especially FFmpeg, which provides the framework all of the above players use.
Read more .. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html
- - Dilip V, http://www.dilpu.net/