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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."

2 of 334 comments (clear)

  1. Embedded Mplayer by mrsev · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not many know this but texstar has a awesome package for embedding Mplayer into Konqueror. This is just awesome.

    Big thanks to the developers., for this one.

  2. will it lose the race against xine? by Pivot · · Score: 5, Informative
    From his second posting;
    > IMHO mplayer is good enough now that it won't lost in /dev/null if i leave.
    > > Probably not, but will it lose the race against xine?

    imho we lose it already. see xine, its popularity started to grow since a month and keeps growing. while we spend our expensive time by rev. engineering codecs, optimizing code, writing demuxers, they improve the gui. then they 'steal' the others and win. we have no chance against xine... Ah, stability. Yes, in old days mplayer was rock solid while xine crashed at every second click. It has been changed: mplayer is now everything but stable (thanks to that many hacks and 10l bugs), while xine improved stability a lot...