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MPlayer 1.0Pre1 Is Here

Posted by timothy on from the everything-and-then-some dept.

bfree writes "Now on your favourite mplayer mirror you can find the 1.0Pre1 release of Mplayer! While work is underway on a second-generation version of Mplayer, I have already fired off emails to my Windows-based friends to let them now that the one player to rule them all now has (preview) support for their OS (I've only looked at a precompiled command line version on Windows but it handled everything I threw at it so far except DVDs). Big changes include Windows (via mingw32 and cygwin) ports, as well as Mac OS X (with extra-accurate Darwin timers). Now if only all those legal questions would go away, perhaps we could have a new killer Free Software application to save people installing Real, Quicktime and Windows Media Player (on Linux!?) or perhaps it's the one application to finally tell the **AA where the world wants to go today!"

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  1. But how does it stand up to the comeptition? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Xine? (Well in my opinion, xine is too buggy, crashes on most files and its gui sucks)
    Videolan? (I never tried it)
    Kmplayer? (The KDE port of mplayer, its got lovely kde goodness)
    Gstreamer? (Well gstreamer is just the library, but it has gst-player and totem as guis, but the library is still in beta, but stabler than Xine)
    Ogle?
    Xmovie?
    RealPlayer (linux version)?

    I don't have time to try it now, so id like some opinions.

  2. Oh the humanity... by asb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many hours did you waste while you wrote yet another skinned user interface? How many hours did you waste with Gimp while you made all those nifty default skins? How many hours of everyone elses time do you waste when people despreately install new skins in order to find the one that is even remotely usable?

    GUI widget sets are there to make it easy for programmers and designers to make user interfaces that are consistent and easy to learn. By implementing your very own eye candy skin framework you undermine all the hard work made by all those smart people.

    This is not a troll. Go read a book or two about user interface design.

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    1. Re:Oh the humanity... by Azghoul · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "waste" is a pretty harsh way of looking at someone getting some practice using GIMP, isn't it? Call it, "practicing graphic arts skills" or something and it doesn't sound so bad.

      Maybe an interface for YOU doesn't make sense as an interface for ME. The nice thing about skins is YOU don't have to use MINE.

  3. Re:first post by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keep your Xine....

    Mplayer is built right. A command line player and a GUI that is seperate.

    That way mplayer can be used as a part of a larger project... freevo ring a bell?

    It blows my mind how many projects for linux are rendered useless for many uses simply because the programmers think that the GUI MUST be a part of the app...

    It doesn't and makes your program less useful.

    mplayer is the best player out for linux. Until you can seperate the gui out of Xine easily at compile time... Xine cant even compete....

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  4. Why so much attrition against Windoze users? by MBMarduk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I sense a LOT of 1337ist attitudes (grudges?) against the idea of using Mplayer on Win32.
    Why? What's with that?
    What ever happened to the ideal of free software for everyone INCLUDING convincing the unwashed Windoze masses of the superiority of FOSS?

    1. Re:Why so much attrition against Windoze users? by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Because if all the cool OSS stuff runs on Windows, there'll be nothing to convince people to use Linux.

      Ah, so you want to force people into running Linux by depriving them of actually working open source software? What do you care what operating system people run? Mind your own business.

      And if you're so bent on having people move from Windows to Linux, why don't you concentrate on making Linux as easy to use and as comfortable as Windows is these days and the public adopt it - even without any dubious "in order to use our software, you'll have to use our operating system" bundling.

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  5. Re:Other recent releases: Totem, GNOME 2 media pla by evilviper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MPlayer is fully functional without any GUI. So what's wrong with using it without a GUI then?

    I think people are determined to use MPlayer (and everything else) from a GUI, just because that's what they've been used-to in the Windows and Mac world... NOT because there is any legitimate reason to do so.

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