What's the point?

[sk8harddiefast]

On mplayer, on flags thereis realplayer plugin that builds realplayer. What's the point to build both of them? Why exist as plugin of mplayer?

 

[UNIXgod]

It's so mplayer can play *.rm (real media) files. I stopped compiling that in years ago. Not many video files using that extension and format anymore.

 

[fonz]

On mplayer, on flags thereis realplayer plugin that builds realplayer. What's the point to build both of them? Why exist as plugin of mplayer?

The multimedia/linux-realplayer port contains the necessary codec(s). Apparently, it is't either infeasible or deemed unnecessary to split it into seperate ports for the codec(s) and for the stand-alone player. But you could of course ask the port maintainer about it.

Fonz