[MPlayer-dev-eng] MplayerXP vs Mplayer. Hall of truth.

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:51:08 +0300
Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru> wrote:
 
> >If you dont like to be too near to old mplayer, it should be
> >possible to organise a server here at the eth (swiss federal
> >institute of technology) for you.
> Distance doesn't matter for me. Simply sf.net is first what crossed my mind.
> But I know nothing about SWIT - what is it? How it stable? Why this commercial
> organization will provide hosting? and so on.

Because they arent comercial. It's one of the biggest technical
universities in europe. Have a look at www.ethz.ch.
I'm at the moment i'm trying to get some webspace from them
for a mplayer mirror (looks like as i got it).
 
> MplayerXP is not marketing trick. And I don't want drop away these parts.
> If someone would look attentively at my patch then he could find out
> that it doesn't touch a-v sync code (simply slightly modified it).
> and important: by suppressing -xp key you get "old" core!
> My changes are caused by the fact that I want to build pure player.
> (Sorry! I don't want to mirror whole sf.net).
> If there is project: libfame then why mplayer should have a copy
> of this project? Let everyone uses libfame.so if he wants.
> My idea is build player which doesn't require to be recompiled when
> you change or add or remove codec.
> If someone found out that version X.YY is stable for his needs then why he
> should upgrade player upto A.BB if he wants upgrade codec only?

ACK

		Attila Kinali

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