[MPlayer-dev-eng] Happy Birthday MPlayer!

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Arpi,

on Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:57:57 +0100 you wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You probably don't know, but the first "release" (better calling it
> snapshot preview of some hacks :)) of MPlayer was exactly 2 years ago,
> at 2000 nov 11:
> 
> http://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.01.tar.gz
> (worth to check it - several lines of that code is still there in cvs :))
> 
> I want to say a big THANK YOU to all you developers now, for your great
> work on this project, keep it up in the future too!
> 
> Especially to Michael Niedermayer, who made libavcodec the best & fastest
> encoding and decoding library all around the world :) and coded the thing
> i had in my nightmares: optimized colorspace conversion & scaling code.
> Not talking about the others, postprocessing filters, and so on...
> If there would be a 'mplayer developer of the year' contest, he would win
> it for sure!
Many thanks to Micheal, he's the guy behind the speed of mplayer !!!!
I must thanks him one more time just bcs i have an old box :)

> Pontscho, for his work on the MPlayer GUI.
> (hey, I really hope you won't rm -rf it as you said few days ago... :)
> (try to ignore users' and developers' flame, and keep up working on it!)
Even if many devlopers aren't GUI user we all know that mplayer wouldn't
have reached the popularity it have today without the GUI. Big thanks to
you too !!!!

> Gabucino, Diego, Jonas and the others (including the translators!)
> for their work on the documentation.  Hey, we started with a 2490 bytes
> long README in v0.05 and now we have 2226kB DOCS/ :)
> (i wish it will be up-to-date one day :))
These guys are the bests !!! The job is hard, they also got plenty of flames but
they do a great job. You'll get it up-to-date ;) Dunno how many command line
options are in the man page but my current version have more than 300 of them !!

> Alex, for all his random hackings, and of course the Ultimate MJPEG codec :)
> (any news on loader vs. quicktime?)
> 
> And of course Eugene Kuznetsov, Florian Schneider and Sascha Sommer, their
> work on the ms directshow, realmedia and quicktime DLL codec support turned
> MPlayer to the first (and only) linux player able to play EVERYTHING!
> 
> The people porting mplayer to everything, even to washing mashine :),
> (I really hope my next VCR will also run mplayer :))
> 
> Pl for rewritting ./configure (uh don't even imagine autoconf :))
> Bertrand Baudet & Albeu for their work on network streaming support,
> Jindrich Makovicka for making v4l capturing usable,
> ... and so on, ok, i won't quote the whole ./AUTHORS file now :)
> 
> Also, special thanks to the UHU Linux team for their great support
> and all the people sending so many donations!
> 
> so, again: THANK YOU TO ALL DEVELOPERS & CONTRIBUTORS!
> We wouldn't be here without You!
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
And to you A'rpi !!! I must say that i like the way this project work. You also got a lot
of flames, but you keep this project on the right way.
	Albeu