[MPlayer-users] Re: LinuxWorld => "MPlayer: The project from hell"

[Sven Hartge]

pl <p_l at tfz.net> wrote:

> MPlayer exemplifies a form of inverse-logic karma. It's a fine video
> player, but you need to work through an amateur-written installation,
> documentation that exemplifies how not to communicate with an
> audience, and boorish developers who think of themselves as a sort of
> intellectual jeunesse dorée. (1,600 words)"

Well, at least he has got one point right, (as far as I think), this is
the codecs.conf has to be copied manually.

Why not using the 'make install' routine to copy the supplied one to a
place where mplayer wants it to have. 

Should not be to hard to implement.

S°

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