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Mplayer Revisited

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-slices-it-dices dept.

Joe Barr writes "It's been two years since I first wrote about Mplayer. Maybe the fury of the developers/community reaction to the fact that I dared to criticize them for their treatment of users kept me away. Whatever. Now Mplayer has a pre1 version of release 1.0 out there and it's time for another look." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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  1. What about other software? by Kandel · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Sure, it's great to have a v1.0 release of MPlayer, but on the other end of the stick, Xine is not far off from hitting the 1.0 status as well. Won't this seem daunting to the end user (labelled automatically as stupid), having two different applications, with individual libraries, for doing the exact same thing.
    Perhaps some collaboration between MPlayer and Xine should occur.
    However, the fact I find most surprising, is that Microsoft hasn't stepped in argueing that the software cannot be called, "MPlayer". Perhaps it's 1.0 status may spur things on...
    Let's hope the MPlayer guys don't ship their next release as version 9.0 :P

  2. Re:Of course you were criticised! by jwinter1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And I think that the MPlayer core team acknowledge that but when you for time number 796 get an email reading 'I problem compiling, Please help!!! Is it bug?' with no log or dump... well the coding gets sour. So I can understand that criticism is difficult to take.

    Don't read those messages. Procmail them to /dev/null/. But don't write pissy documentation. That's just childish.

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