From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Nov 17 07:01:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA16270 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 07:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA16264 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 07:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA17117 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:53:57 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199711171353.OAA17117@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: rvplayer 5.0 warning To: multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:53:56 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One thing about rvplayer I don't like very much. In the "connection" menu you can see the following (enabled by default): RealPlayer maintains statistics on connection quality. These statistics help content providers improve the quality of their service. This setting controls whether statistics are sent to the content provider. There is no mention of the above in the documentation or the license (except in rvplayer.ad, but that's not documentation), nor I have checked (using tcpdump) which kind of information is sent back. To me, leaving this option on by default without mentioning it is at least unpolite. Your mileage may vary. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________