On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > I d/l the tarball from sourceforge.net as soon as I saw this & installed > it. It IS "neat"! The only problem was that I had to grab the > Quicktime win32 audio dlls to get sound going. With this addition, > mplayer is now functionally in the same league as QuickTime or WMP > running under Crossover/Wine on my machines... If you don't want to go > the Crossover route, Mplayer is definately your best "all-in-one" > solution, IMHO. mplayer is quite slick. I really like how the GUI is optional in mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as a bug. Media players don't need 40,000 pounds of chrome over them about as much as they need to be web browsers, and I think a good portion of Windows users agree (contrary to the existance of Windows Media Player). Honestly, what do these people expect? I've only two minor complaints about mplayer: Resizing the window should not change the aspect ratio of the video being played, I feel this is a bug. The other is not a complaint so much about mplayer as it is prevelent formats and the idea of software "property": Some of the codecs are non-free and it wouldn't surprise me if they infringe on patents. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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