[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF proposal

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Tue Mar 11 13:36:47 CET 2003


On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:02:42AM -0000, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> are you aware of some volunteer willing to write a DShow filter for 
> Windows ? And what about plugins for Nan/VirtualDub also?
> 
> If not, then the new format will only serve Linux users.
> 
> I will not discuss whether there are more Windows or Linux users out there,
> but i suspect that the average Windows user will not even know that this new
> 
> file format exists, no matter who good and awesome it is.

And? Maybe some windows users will install Linux to see that movies :)
Common windows media formats are playable on Linux too, so a new format
will end in showing interest the content of that movies even from a non-advanced
windows users. So it's the first stage to the 'world domination' project :)

Personally I've never cared about my movies playeble on win or not.
Simply because I'm usning only mplayer. Some of my friends use mplayer on Linux
just because of my habbits :)

The short answer: it's the problem of windows. not our ...

- Gábor (larta'H)


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