[MPlayer-users] About future MPlayer developements (for Árpád Gereöffy if you have time !)

[Clemens W!
P)! ]

On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:20:58 +0100 (MET)
"Eric NICOLAS" <nicolas00 at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Lot of users (like me) can afford Linux at home,
> but cannot at work because of corporate standards.

Well, yes. But I'd like to see more people trying to change the
corporate standarts.
You see, rfc's get updated, too ;-) But I guess you already tried that,
didn't you?

> Still I would like to play video nicely at work from time to time.
> 
> I was thinking more of a true Windows port, not some kind of hack
> requiring lots of external software to run (cygwin, ...).

Well, I think that would be very time consuming and somehow dangerous,
too. That is a topic which was discussed here, too. For example, mencoder
has capabilities (interntionally not specific) which no software on
windows has. If mencoder would run on windows, I am sure that many 
corporations would have asked to remove that features. But the theory
was that they did not do so because mplayer is unix and their products
are windows so that they don't really compete in a direct way. 

Another argument is that mplayer's goal is to become a really good
unix movie player and there are many features which are still to
be implemented and many things which could be done (see the wishlists)
so before seriously thinking about a windows port, those things are
scheduled first.

But you said that you are a developer... so if you are thinking about
starting a own project which ports mplayer to windows, you are of
course free to do so (as long as you don't violate mplayers license).
I know a lot of people who would really like to have a good windows
player so I think that that is somehow demanded. So go ahead... or 
don't as I also know people who are somehow considering linux for
mplayers strengh... 

> As for the video and audio output, I don't see any support for
> DirectX, so I assume Windows is not well supported at all right now.

Well I know someone who actually built mplayer under cygwin but it
did not run very well... still better than some native windows 
players but compared to mplayer it was really poor.

Clemens