vvmarko at... wrote: > That depends to whom you are showing it. Once I was able to convert a > hard core Windows-Media-Player-lover to using mplayer --- I installed > mplayer and created a shortcut to a script that would execute > > mplayer movie.avi -v > > in a terminal. The guy was not impressed by playing the movie, but by > the wealth of data written to the terminal window! No other player gives > so much side information during playback (AFAIK), and for my friend this > was mind-boggling. In his own words, "this looks like a player that knows > exactly what it is doing, and does it very well." The Linux mantra right > out of the mouth of a Windows user! ;-) He eventually switched to > mplayer, and occasionally even uses Linux when he finds it more useful > than Windows.
I doubt I will ever get a Mac user impressed by the "wealth of data written to the terminal window". That's exactly what they don't want to see and, considering the matter at hand, rightly so. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
