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MPlayer 0.90 released; MPlayer Maintainer Leaves

Posted by timothy on from the plays-what-you-throw-at-it dept.

Viqsi writes "459 days after the previous stable release, the MPlayer folks have finally released stable version 0.90. With this done, A'rpi (th head maintainer) is leaving the project, citing too-much-free-time-forever-lost issues, and the team is looking closely at revising the way the project is managed as a result. Here's hoping some improvements come out of this."

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  1. Re:Congrats to the MPlayer team! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm slowly managing to break my addiction to slashdot thanks to retards like you, but I couldn't resist this one last time. You may not have bothered to look, since you're a retard and all, but mplayer *is* library based, and does have multiple UIs. Also, unlike Xine, it doesn't crash all the damn time, and playing a DVD isn't UI voodoo.

    I don't mind you commenting, but do try to use your brain a little. It just makes things nicer for the rest of us.

  2. user's attitude... by PhoenixK7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually I'd argue that your attitude is "utterly ridiculous." Seriously, they're providing a product _FOR FREE_ they have little or no reason to bend to your whims. You can make suggestions, and perhaps they'll follow them, especially if you ask nicely or thank them for such a well written app.

    Think about it. If you'd put alot of time into some project and provided it for free would you be willing to both put up with answering question XYZ for the 10000th time, especially if it really is covered in the docs? Would you be willing to put up with people that demand you fix something?

    Think about it.