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MPlayer Developers Interviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the people-who-do-stuff dept.

cruocitae writes "Three of the MPlayer developers just gave an interview, talking about the "mysterious" versioning system of their software and shared a few secrets about the upcoming releases, for example some words about the long-awaited Windows GUI, and of course, DVD menus. Project integrity also was a subject.."

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  1. Re:VLC or MPlayer by broeman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    both.

    I use VLC for my IPTV-provider, because RTSP sucks in mplayer (at least for me). For the rest, I am a mplayer-fan, with support for as many codecs as possible.

    Eventhough, I don't think this mainly is about VLC vs. MPlayer. Both applications uses many of the same libraries, but with different implementation. MPlayer also gets its "hands dirty" with DeCSS and WMV "support" in *nix.

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  2. Re:I love MPlayer but... by Otter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't find so maybe it's gone now, but MPlayer used to have a "joke FAQ" with entries like "Q: Why do I get audio but no video? A: You're blind". Unfortunately, a lot of people (myself included) mistook it for the real FAQ because a) in a Google search on "MPlayer FAQ" it came up first and b) honestly, it wasn't significantly more obnoxious or less helpful than the people in #mplayer.

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