As a contributing developer to MPlayer, I thought I should chip in here in its defense. MPlayer was never meant to have a GUI. It was added as an afterthought by some contributers to the project. In fact, by default, MPlayer will not even build the GUI. MPlayer is designed to be fast, robust, and versitile. This entails:
- It plays *anything* you throw at it - It manages to work around badly encoded media without going south - It minimizes overhead (which is one reason why threads are vehemently rejected from the code base, and why MPlayerXP was branched off) MPlayer is unparalleled in these arena's. *No* other single player can claim to be able to play *every* major video codec out there. Also, since late December and of particular interest to our community, MPlayer contains EDL functionality, which allows you to specify timecodes for sections of the video to skip over or to mute, in case there is content that you don't care to see or to hear in any particular video stream. As far as I know, there is no other Open Source media player that does this. Again, MPlayer is not supposed to have happy colorful candy-like buttons for you to push, with a weak and inefficient infrastructure behind it (all too common nowadays with multimedia apps). Its strengths reside in its raw power and robustness, along with its extensive library of codecs and filters. On a personal note, I prefer ``mplayer -dvd 1'' to launching a GUI and clicking around at buttons. GUI's are like diapers; with time, you grow out of them. Mike On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 23:44, John Call wrote: I tried MPlayer and frankley wasn't as impressed as with the outstanding menu interface and friendlyness of Ogle DVD Player. http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ This definetely deserves a once-over from our community. John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - Click here for McAfee.com VirusScan Online ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Assistant, Network Security Lab | Dept. of Comp. Science | Brigham Young University "As a computer, I find your faith in | technology amusing." | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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