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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. Re:Great for OSX by Fred+IV · · Score: 5, Informative

    VLC is pretty good too, better for me because my mac is an older machine and the OS X version of mplayer doesn't always work well with my hardware (iBook 500).

  2. Why review only the beta version? by TheOrquithVagrant · · Score: 5, Informative

    MPlayer 0.92 is the current stable release where everything works as expected.

    MPlayer 1.0-pre1 has some nice new stuff, but even though it has one thing (support for input from v4l devices with hardware MJPEG support) which I've wanted ofr a long time, the current pre-release is much too flakey for me to use, and I've gone back to 0.92.

    MPlayer 1.0-pre1 is for writing bug-reports, not reviews.

    Unless Mr. Barr had a conscious or subconscious WISH to find things that didn't work right, i don't see why he wrote his review for the pre1 version.