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<bookinfo id="toc">
<title><application>MPlayer</application> - The Movie Player</title>
<subtitle><ulink url="http://www.mplayer2.org/"></ulink></subtitle>
<date>March 24, 2003</date>
<copyright>
  <year>2000</year>
  <year>2001</year>
  <year>2002</year>
  <year>2003</year>
  <year>2004</year>
  <year>2005</year>
  <year>2006</year>
  <year>2007</year>
  <year>2008</year>
  <year>2009</year>
  <year>2010</year>
  <year>2011</year>
  <holder>MPlayer team</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
  <title>License</title>
  <para>MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
  published by the Free Software Foundation.</para>

  <para>MPlayer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
  or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
  for more details.</para>

  <para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with MPlayer; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
  Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.</para>
</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>


<preface id="howtoread">
<title>How to read this documentation</title>

<para>
If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
you have any other questions, return to the <link linkend="toc">Table of
Contents</link> and search for the topic, read the <xref linkend="faq"/>,
or try grepping through the files.
</para>
</preface>


<chapter id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
OUTDATED CONTENT REMOVED
<para>
</para>

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<para>
<application>MPlayer</application> and <application>MEncoder</application>
can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
</para>

</chapter>

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